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Yet attractive as they sound, competition and flexibility have their
enemies.
The Soviet state saw itself as being at war with almost everything – foreign spies, class enemies, people wearing jeans or playing jazz.
Protecting society from enemies, foreign and domestic, is once again the order of the day.
At the same time, people worldwide must stop regarding one another as untrustworthy
enemies.
In the “Great Waltz” of July 1944 – which the Novgorod event will reenact – 57,000 German prisoners of war were marched through the streets of Moscow, Stalin’s goal being to humiliate the Germans and remind Muscovites of their hatred for their
enemies.
As a result, the biggest threats to free trade and the open society stem from domestic sources, not external
enemies.
Understanding in their bones the deep popularity of social causes, free trade’s
enemies
cleverly fuse trade protectionism with a defense of other social programs and values.
Exaggerated fear of outside
enemies
has always been part of the American political landscape.
Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating
enemies
for Islam.
Though their bitter border dispute remains unresolved, and China has been a vital ally and military supplier to India’s
enemies
in Pakistan, bilateral relations have grown warmer in recent years.
And British Prime Minister David Cameron has described it as “one of the greatest
enemies
of progress in our time.”
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against
enemies
that it equates with states that violate human rights.
To promote their position, Russia's generals and diplomats adhere to the perception that the country remains besieged by enemies, the US and NATO most prominently.
Exploiting this deepening Sunni-Shia divide, ISIS recruiters and leaders present themselves as defenders of all true Muslims against Islam’s supposed ideological and religious enemies, including the West.
As shown by the exile of the former media tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinky, and the imprisonment of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three fates await Putin’s enemies: exile, imprisonment, or the grave.
This tactic – to “forgive” one’s enemies, while punishing them via their relatives – was a favorite of Stalin’s.
In fact, elites everywhere have always lived by this injunction, and ordinary people have not minded very much, provided that the elites fulfill their part of the bargain: protect the country against its
enemies
and improve living conditions.
Iran’s regional foreign policy has not yet caught up with its new pre-eminence; it is making as many
enemies
as it is gaining friends, and it might squander the windfall gains that it made in the past three years.
In 1965, when the North Vietnamese were proving to be stubborn enemies, LeMay threatened that they would be “bombed back into the stone age.”
Enemies
of reason, however, are also to be found in the West.
Today, the one-time allies have become inveterate
enemies.
If Asia focuses on its trans-cultural ethical core, an entirely new spirit of unity can be developed that uses soft power instead of military force and does not know enemies, but only partners and competitors.
And when populists have an opportunity to write a new constitution, why should they not ride roughshod over any opposition, which, by definition, must comprise the
enemies
of the people (who often are accused of being foreign agents)?
At the same time Russia is selling billions of dollars worth of sophisticated weaponry to China, whose rearmament, despite the absence of serious threats or enemies, is perhaps the highest in the world.
So feelings of injustice gave rise to resentment, envy, and a destructive energy focused on revenge against former
enemies
and old friends who seemed successful.
Some of the increased expenditures went to the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the broader Global War on Terrorism, but much of it was wasted on weapons that don’t work against
enemies
that don’t exist.
The protest against inviting Jongen was not only intellectually incoherent; it was also tactically stupid, because it confirms the belief of the far right that liberals are the
enemies
of free speech, and that right-wing populists are victims of liberal intolerance.
Quite the contrary: Saddam’s regime and militant Islam were mortal
enemies.
How wrong they were, and how miraculous was Mandela’s achievement in making even his most implacable
enemies
feel at home in post-apartheid South Africa.
Pro-Europeans need only wake up in time to seize it – or Europe’s
enemies
will.
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