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Consider the battle against AIDS, TB, and malaria.
ISIS in AmericaDENVER – While the fight between the Islamic State and the forces arrayed against it rages in the Middle East, another brutal battle is brewing in the United States over who is winning the war.
Clinton vs. Trump constitutes a genuine battle, for example, as does the European Union vs. the Brexiteers; but the combatants are accomplices, not foes, in perpetuating an endless loop of mutual reinforcement, with each side defined by – and mobilizing its supporters on the basis of – what it opposes.
For the moment, there is space for everyone in this battle, because everyone agrees on one critical point: what is really needed is adequate funding.
When politicians convince people that they are in a life-or-death battle – that survival is a matter of “us or them” – anything becomes possible.
While the battle against Qaddafi was still raging, Libyans considered it unpatriotic to point out the NTC’s weaknesses.
In Switzerland, Thomas Minder, the head of the cosmetics company Trybol, is fighting the same battle, and demanding a national referendum.
But rendering Europe’s political institutions accountable to citizens is only half the battle.
A Final Word With FergusonLONDON – Like any skilful controversialist, Niall Ferguson knows that when you have lost the main battle, it is time for diversionary tactics.
In response, the culture wars flare anew, with gun-control advocates in pitched battle against gun enthusiasts.
Rather than fighting another ill-fated battle in Washington, it is more promising to encourage many more states to exercise their prerogatives.
The traditional battle between labor and capital has been about the latter, with workers and owners fighting over their share of the pie.
But as soon as the IDF was fully mobilized and the reservist brigades that make up nine-tenths of its strength were ready to deploy for battle, the Israelis stopped both the Egyptian and Syrian armies in their tracks and began their own advance almost immediately.
No one should be surprised the latest anti-tank missiles can penetrate even the heaviest and best protected of battle tanks.
But in 1973, after crossing the Suez Canal, Egyptian infantrymen by the thousand stood their ground unflinchingly against advancing Israeli battle tanks.
It also reflects a broader, raging battle for Poland’s soul.
A battle of values is looming.
The battle between austerity’s defenders and opponents thus threatens to tear apart not just the eurozone, but the EU as a whole.
Despite Macron’s decisive victory, he faces an uphill battle implementing his economic agenda.
As the US and its allies continue to face terrorist blowback, one hopes that Trump comes to his senses, and helps to turn the seemingly interminable War on Terror that Bush launched in 2001 into a battle that can actually be won.
Negativity may win the battle, but it’s unlikely to win the war, much less secure long-term peace and prosperity.
Part of the work of renewing Ukraine is a creative battle to put an end to a nightmarish century during which fascism and communism – ideologies born in the heart of Europe – battled for mastery.
The rejection of my nomination was, according to many, just another political battle: you win some, you lose some, but you cannot say that you have been unfairly discriminated against simply because you lost.
The first classic mistake made thus far was for the UK government to imagine that it was headed into battle.
It should not keep its plans secret, as it has so far done, and it certainly should not engage in brinkmanship, such as that exemplified by May’s battle cry that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”
The battle against high inflation was won ten years earlier.
“The battle for brainpower,” as The Economist recently put it, has begun.
The disasters of two world wars, and the half-century of Cold War, pushed Europe to embrace cooperation and integration in order to avoid another suicidal battle.
After the battle of the Marne (September 1914) and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, some of Wilhelm’s advisers realized that the chances for a military victory were slim, hence the need for a negotiated peace.
The battle lines in this struggle suggest that there is little accord among political elites for any spending, let alone for a long war with far-flung commitments.
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