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Paris would blame not its own lack of political foresight for the defeat but the lack of support from its European partners.
The defeat of the Arab armies in 1967 was the prelude to a fundamental transformation in the structure of the Arab-Israeli conflict that Israel’s leaders either misread or overlooked.
But Sadat never expected to defeat Israel, and his strategy did not aim at military victory.
Algeria’s Islamists took a slightly different route, moderating their politics after their defeat in the devastating civil war of the 1990s.
Creating space for benign expressions of Islam in the public sphere is essential to defeat global jihadism.
We should defeat them, however long it takes, because otherwise they will not disappear.
So, far from seeking a fair peace deal between the two parties, Trump has effectively declared victory for Israel – and instructed the Palestinians to accept defeat quietly.
However, other scenarios loom, not so much of defeat as of confusion and the impossibility of creating sustainable peace.
With Hollande’s defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel has virtually no support in the eurozone besides that of Finland.
Ironically, this narrow approach also undermines the effort to achieve Trump’s sole objective, as a lasting defeat of ISIS and other jihadists will demand a credible political transition that permanently ends the civil war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the kingmaker whose timely military intervention saved Assad’s regime from defeat and turned the war’s tide in his favor.
Among the political tasks these broader groups are beginning to broach are strategies to defeat terrorism without alienating the region’s large, indigenous Muslim population.
The Persian Sassanid Empire, exhausted financially and militarily from decades of warfare with the Byzantine Empire, endured a decisive defeat in the Battle of Qadisiyyah in 636.
The Return of TuberculosisGenerations of doctors, politicians, and public health officials have struggled to defeat tuberculosis.
What occurred in the cage, according to this narrative, was the long-overdue defeat, by wholly necessary and defensible means, of a murderous terrorist insurrection that had threatened the country’s very existence.
It has shown that it can defeat Georgia’s army.
If we can defeat that ideology, we will begin to make progress toward a more secure world.
As Middle East analyst Murtaza Hussain recently observed: “Syria and Iraq, formerly unified Arab states formed after the defeat of their former Ottoman rulers, exist today only in name.”
After Germany’s defeat, he was convinced that only a united Europe could prevent another devastating war in the West.
But he knew better than to pursue a total American victory and a total Soviet defeat.
However hasty these judgments may end up being, it certainly seems that the region’s oldest and last political-military organization is, at long last, on the brink of defeat.
Everywhere else, for whatever reason – misguided strategies, tactical mistakes, erroneous theories, US intervention, etc. – they faced only defeat, repression, and futility.
But if one thing is clear, it is that terrorists cannot defeat democracy.
Opinion polls in Taiwan suggest that former Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) will defeat Frank Hsieh of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
But some in China fear that the incumbent president, Chen Shui-bian of the DPP, is seeking a pretext to prevent a defeat for the pro-sovereignty camp.
Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.
President Ali Abdullah Salih has regularly used Yemeni Wahhabis to defeat his domestic opponents – first the Communists, then the Zaidis, and then the Huthis.
If they break this pledge, presumably they will face defeat in the next round of Republican Party primaries.
To lose Indonesia - a potential beacon of hope to all pro-democracy activists in the world Muslim community - would be a terrible defeat.
The opportunity for a triumphal group photo was especially welcome for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, in light of her country’s ignominious World Cup defeat and slack economy, and for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, given the international reaction against his government’s support of the rebels in Ukraine.
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