Enemies
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Common
enemies
– Jews, the US government, the alleged “New World Order” – have sustained this unholy alliance politically.
Because Americans misunderstood the motives behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States fought two costly wars, which did not defeat its
enemies
and have left the Middle East more volatile than ever.
Indeed, both have emphasized the need to support counterinsurgency operations with effective policies that do not create new
enemies
and fuel the need for “more ammunition.”
Republican presidents have a better record in negotiating with
enemies
than do Democratic ones.
Ransoming Israel’s Chance for PeaceMADRID – The exchange of prisoners between
enemies
is often a prelude to political reconciliation.
It is weakening the West’s leading power and strengthening the West’s
enemies.
May the recipients of Trump’s sudden solicitude be as wary of this new friend as they are of their
enemies.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, famously gloated after the Nazis’ legal Machtergreifung (seizure of power): “It will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy that it provided its mortal
enemies
with the means through which it was annihilated.”
Similarly, the nature of US military tactics – which in recent years have frequently conflated civilian “collateral damage” with combat against armed
enemies
– has dehumanized the victims.
They were told that North Korea was a heroic little country besieged by Satanic enemies, led by the United States.
So there is no reason for despair in the Rhineland - or for gloating by the
enemies
of its economic model.
Islam as a Tool of ModernizationA big worry in Iraq and the wider Middle East is that Islam and modernization are
enemies.
Sadr opposes federalism because a Shia regional government would obey his enemies, Sistani and the SCIRI, and, he says, fall under Iranian influence.
Unfortunately, their zeal to defend trade from its
enemies
has backfired.
We may thus have to learn how to exploit these synergies and use the weapons that microbes provide us, rather than look at them only as mortal
enemies
marked for peremptory extermination.
The new battle of lifestyles has given rise to new
enemies
of open societies, such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
If Putin lives by any motto, it is this: “To my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law.”
From Africa to South and Southeast Asia, Arab petrodollars have played a key role in fomenting militant Islamic fundamentalism that targets the West, Israel, and India as its
enemies.
But the downsides of technology have become far darker, with the
enemies
of a free society able to communicate, plan, and conduct destructive acts more easily.
The democratic way of life, these writers argue, tends to destroy original thought and to suppress “high” culture, yielding a mediocrity that leaves citizens vulnerable to democracy’s
enemies.
He accused anonymous
enemies
(his anonymous “they” presumably included Western governments) of pursuing an agenda to destroy Russia, and he encouraged his security officials to push back.
After all, Putin, a former KGB officer, has proved more than willing to use digital (not to mention physical) means to harass, intimidate, and coerce his
enemies
and opponents.
Market economies cannot operate when their established rules are haphazardly enforced, which is what happens when national and international regulators turn into advocates for local enterprises and
enemies
of foreign businesses.
But, while pointing to external
enemies
can no longer stop revolts and revolutions, it would be a mistake to assume that the disappearance of authoritarian regimes would lead to the swift resolution of regional conflicts.
The fight against female genital mutilation is not a replay of the West's 'battle of the sexes' circa the 1960s; rather, it is a struggle against the fear of unknown enemies; against fear of change and the opportunities and contexts that arrive in the wake of change.
Are we not witnessing -- around Africa's great lakes, in the Balkans, the Gulf and Central Asia -- ethnic frictions and religious fervor bringing fire and destruction on
enemies?
Instead the world was made to see an insecure and vulnerable India, a “soft state” bedevilled by
enemies
who can strike it at will.
Though banned by General Pervez Musharraf under duress after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Lashkar (which considers the United States, Israel and India “existential
enemies
of Islam”) simply regrouped under a different name and is even more powerful than before.
A retired prefectural governor from Kardze told the Singapore paper Zaobao that “the government should have more trust in its people, particularly the Tibetan monks,” and the current Tibet governor admitted that some protesters last year “weren’t satisfied with our policies,” rather than calling them
enemies
of the state, the first official concession from within China that some of its policies might be connected to the recent protests.
Modi would rather be perceived as embodying Patel’s decisiveness than as the destructive bigot his
enemies
decry.
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