The analogy between World War II and the 1991 Persian Gulf crisis led people to construct a coherent system of roles for the participants in the Gulf crisis. The Analogical Constraint Mapping Engine (ACME), a model of analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction (Holyoak & Thagard, 1989), makes predictions about the types of correspondences people are likely to draw between the people and coun...

The Iraqi state-directed demographic engineering of the oil-rich Kurdish districts Kirkuk and Khanaqin was launched in early 1920s has continued to present day. history use Arabization as a geopolitical strategy for controlling oil revenue region been investigated (Talabany 2008; 2011). issue genocide within these various ethnic constructions remains understudied. This article, informed by inte...

Scholars are critical of how economists overlook “the questions genocide,” and legislatures have not paid adequate attention to the subject looting, except in case Armenian genocide. This article, informed by interdisciplinary perspectives, uses government documents, data, semi-structured interviews discuss overlooked triangle economics, Anfal genocide Kurds Iraq. The study refuses limit itself...

814 When the Bush Administration was preparing to invade Iraq in March 2003, many archaeologists had a personal stake in trying to avert the conflict. They feared for the safety of their Iraqi colleagues and worried about the impact of modern warfare on the innumerable ancient sites that dot Mesopotamia’s landscape. The subsequent looting 1 year ago of cultural institutions such as the Iraq Mus...

Page 1 of 10 Jon Dorbolo © 1995 Analogue An analogue is an equivalent or counterpart in an analogy. When President Bush said that "Saddam Hussein is another Hitler" he was claiming that the President of contemporary Iraq is the analogue of the Fuhrer of WWII Germany. Whether such comparisons are strong and reasonable is a matter for logical analysis. What matters here is that Peirce is providin...