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And when liberals engage in international military conflict, their worldview is a recipe for total and perpetual war, because their commitment to abstract norms encourages them to view their opponents not merely as competitors but rather as “absolute enemies.”
For anti-liberals, the true
enemies
of peace today are those nation-states and institutions that seek to place external limits on sovereignty and conceive of political community in normative rather than territorial and cultural terms.
Today, some states harbor terrorists in order to attack their
enemies
or because they are too weak to control powerful groups.
Later, they add, he voluntarily joined the "Revolution", fought its
enemies
and contributed to its victory.
When my school was sent to the Polish spa in the town of Zakopane, we were obviously enemies, unwanted in every respect.
This virtuous circle is still seen by globalization’s
enemies
as in fact a vicious one, encouraging exploitation of the poor and vulnerable.
But criticism came not only from the
enemies
of minority rights.
For some zealots on the left, Zionism and US imperialism are so wicked that their avowed
enemies
must be the left’s friends.
The Paranoid Style in Chinese PoliticsHONG KONG – Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political paranoia as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser and Secretary of State, famously said that even a paranoid has real
enemies.
It is difficult to say whether a paranoid with real
enemies
is easier to deal with than one without any.
Once this strategy is understood, there is a simple antidote: Refuse to behave the way your
enemies
want you to.
The term "open society" was coined by Henri Bergson, in his book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), and given greater currency by the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, in his book The Open Society and Its
Enemies
(1945).
Totalitarian ideologies were its
enemies.
Written during the Second World War, The Open Society and Its
Enemies
explained what Western democracies stood for and fought for.
THE PROMISE OF FALLIBILITYIt is easier to identify the
enemies
of open society than to give the concept a positive meaning.
Breivik had fantasies of being a knight fighting the
enemies
of the West.
After all, the mere possession of nuclear weapons, even if aimed at each other, does not turn countries into
enemies.
It might also help Russia and the US overcome their old habit of viewing each other as
enemies.
Rather than viewing them as enemies, we should know what they are up to, and perhaps have a little more say in what they do.
Defending Israel against its Islamic
enemies
may indeed be a factor in the existential alarmism that underlies the present “war on terror.”
This is our purpose today; we must commit ourselves to it as passionately as democracy’s
enemies
pursue theirs.
Quite simply, the vast majority of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in a fundamental respect: A small country surrounded by enemies, in a chaotic region of failing states and vicious non-state actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Islamic State, cannot afford to run elections on socioeconomic platforms as if it were a peaceful West European duchy.
But it was Soviet power, through a combination of purges and forced famines, that killed more of its children than all the
enemies
of Russia combined.”
As I argue in my book Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies, the answer is not simply that people are afraid of the unknown.
As the former US Treasury official Juan Zarate revealed in his recent memoir Treasury’s War, the US spent the decade after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks developing a new set of financial weapons to use against America’s
enemies
– first Al Qaeda, then North Korea and Iran, and now Russia.
It will help to unite a people long divided not just by scheming enemies, but also by deep disagreement over what it means to be a Kurd.
With a new government in power, the chief's
enemies
seized the opportunity to redress the wrong, providing a reminder of the perils of prior efforts to de-tribalize Africa.
In fact, Iran’s nuclear program was intended to compensate for its conventional military weakness in a neighborhood where it has more
enemies
than friends.
Meanwhile, its enemies, particularly Israel and Saudi Arabia, which both have far larger military budgets, were acquiring the most advanced Western military technologies.
Think of us!”Iran’s interest in avoiding all-out war should be good news for its enemies, which are not in a particularly strong position to manage further foreign military entanglements.
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