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Indeed, under Chen’s policy, Taiwan nearly became a rigidly divided society, where “local” and “not native” Chinese lived as potential
enemies.
His
enemies
are not just Muslims, but the liberal Western elites, and their children, who were destroying Europe from within through “multiculturalism” and “cultural Marxism.”
Another group of unhelpful Western critics regards North Korea as proof that even paranoids have enemies, and that it is the West’s responsibility to overcome the North’s presumption of a hostile policy against it.
But Israel has every reason to be concerned, for a nuclear Iran would undermine the promise of Zionism to secure a Jewish refuge – the core rationale of Israel’s own strategy of “nuclear ambiguity” – and would embolden its
enemies
throughout the region.
Iran’s growing regional influence does not stem from its military expenditures, which are far lower than those of its enemies, but from its challenge to America and Israel through an astute use of soft power.
For many Indians, the temptation to identify with Israel was strengthened by the terrorists’ seizure of Mumbai’s Jewish Center (the Lubavitcher Chabad house) and the painful awareness that India and Israel share many of the same
enemies.
For example, David Horowitz, who accuses me of being “the Lenin of the anti-American conspiracy,” is a former Trotskyite for whom opponents are never adversaries to be debated, but rather
enemies
to be crushed.
It turns out that, at the “end” of history, the
enemies
of open, democratic societies never actually surrendered.
That moment marked the end of years of war and terrible hardship; the revolution had been won through blood, sacrifice, heroism, the mistakes of enemies, and the manipulative assistance of Stalin, who purported to be a friend.
They were either targeted for execution in the killing fields as bourgeois intellectual
enemies
of the state, or perished, as more than a million did, from starvation and disease, following forced displacement to rural labor camps.
Turkey’s drive to serve as a peace broker between Israel and its Arab enemies, Erdogan’s vociferous championship of the Palestinian cause, and his pretension to be the mediator in the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West reflect Turkey’s changing perceptions of itself as a regional leader.
Erdogan’s strategy makes him complicit with the agenda of the West’s most vicious
enemies.
Some were concerned with more abstract, ideological enemies, such as Communism and “Americanism,” while there were also voices highlighting the menace of the “white race” (including Japan’s allies, Germany and Italy) against the “yellow race.”
A virus can be just a couple hundred lines of computer code, compared to hundreds of thousands of lines for anti-virus programs, which must be designed to detect wide classes of
enemies.
Syria’s Lebanese
enemies
know that the election’s outcome will determine their fate.
The Soviets were regularly attacked as dangerous
enemies
of God.
In the prevailing atmosphere of turmoil and confusion, the radical Islamists attack the Americans as barbarous Crusaders who have replaced the communists as the
enemies
of Islam.
Until then, activists and politicians can cynically proclaim their “triumph” over straw-man
enemies
and global warming itself.
So long as it remains an effective means for weak parties to exert pressure on their more powerful enemies, terrorism cannot be expected to disappear.
We should attack our
enemies
directly and not back off till we succeed."
Lapses in ethical standards give ammunition to the
enemies
of science.
No matter how unjustified Israel’s traditional military behavior seems in the eyes of its
enemies
and critics, it has always aspired to base its military actions on grounds that can be justified.
The Iranian challenge to Israel’s strategic hegemony is presented as a Holocaust-style existential threat, and Israel’s other
enemies
– Hezbollah, which believes that it can bring about “the end of the Zionist entity,” and Syria, which publicly boasts of its ballistic missiles’ capacity to destroy Israel’s main urban centers – are similarly viewed as irrational actors.
Without any defined responsibilities, he intruded where he wished – and ended up with a lot of
enemies.
And the
enemies
of democracy can foment such events.
Is it a conservative party of good government that seeks equality for Islam in the public sphere, as its leaders usually suggest, or an Islamist wolf in moderate sheep’s clothing, as its
enemies
fear?
Europe’s founding fathers understood this when they hatched the idea of creating the European Coal and Steel Community: encouraging old
enemies
to pool some of the most powerful tools of war under the pretext of advancing their economic interests was a strategy of rare intelligence.
But at least we will know that we are not fighting for an impossible objective that can only result in blood and devastation – blood and devastation that will weigh on the collective memories of the sons and grandsons of our neighbors, who will remain our enemies, even if the spinning top continues to turn.
Yet the EU’s post-communist members were bound to experience a crisis of liberal democracy sooner or later, owing to a fundamental legacy from their communist past: the absence of the concept of a loyal opposition – legitimate adversaries to be debated, rather than traitorous
enemies
to be eliminated.
Some of the major oil-surplus countries, notably Iran, Venezuela, and Russia, have been
enemies
of the current world order, and their wings are being trimmed.
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