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One can systematically catalog the ways that the authorities mistreat many of its people as terribly as they claim that Cuba's
enemies
treat her.
Bush’s Dying Days in GazaPARIS – During a visit to the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that
enemies
of the United States should not use the power vacuum there to try to alter the status quo or to undermine the new American president’s objectives.
The uprisings ousted reliable old allies like Hosni Mubarak, and turned regimes such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s into implacable
enemies.
Thus was born the myth of the heroic intelligence officer who protects Russians in their homes while terrifying the nation’s
enemies.
Moreover, his former position as head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service will allow him to draw on a wealth of information to keep tabs on all possible
enemies
and competitors, perhaps turning them into new model Berezovsky’s, Gusinsky’s and Khodorkovsky’s, if necessary.
“Isn’t that Nixon the same one you have been telling us for years is an evil man who is completely in the control of the Zionists and our enemies?”
From the first day of school, Syrians are taught that America and its ally, Israel, are mortal
enemies
seeking to keep Syria weak.
Political and Psychological Preparation for Enlisted Officer Candidates lists Syria’s
enemies
– from the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Arab right” to the “racist Zionists.”
In democratic countries, it is vital that democracy’s
enemies
be fought with democratic means.
What, indeed, can liberals everywhere do to confront their enemies, internal and external?
Liberals, being people of good will, find it hard to conceive of implacable
enemies.
But Osama bin Laden's deeds remind us that some
enemies
cannot be appeased.
So how are we to distinguish implacable
enemies
from run-of-the-mill adversaries, and how are we do deal with them?
But what, then, do we do when we confront
enemies
so implacable that they stop at nothing to impose their values?
If liberal philosophers are of limited guidance in dealing with our enemies, perhaps one of the 20th century's most illiberal thinkers can help.
Indeed, Schmitt believed that a world without
enemies
would be a world without politics.
In his famous book, The Concept of the Political, Schmitt argued that Germany's Weimar Republic rotted away because its leaders refused to confront their self-declared
enemies.
By failing to defend the constitution against internal enemies, Weimar's liberals showed that they feared taking a decision more than they feared taking on their
enemies.
You confront and defeat your enemies, or you die.
Liberalism, of course, has faced
enemies
before--Schmitt among them, for, as Hitler's "Crown Jurist," he was among those who posed as irreconcilable foes of Weimar liberalism.
To be sure, minor
enemies
should not be inflated into deadly ones.
Liberalism's
enemies
are real enough.
But how do we identify our
enemies?
Listen to who is declaring that we are his
enemies.
Those that do are our
enemies.
Once identified, we must not treat self-declared
enemies
like children and try to explain to them that they do not really mean what they say, or that we love them and that they should not use such nasty words.
If people say that they are our enemies, we should treat them accordingly.
Liberal democracy is, after all, well prepared to fight against its internal
enemies
through the rule of law.
Indeed, as 20th century experience demonstrates, in the face of true enemies, liberal societies must apply the rule of law even if the consequences appear harsh and "illiberal."
What is true for internal
enemies
must be true for external ones as well.
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