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For Trump, who is first and foremost a businessman, letting a competitor take care of his
enemies
appears good for the bottom line.
The Wall Street Journal actually wrote an editorial on November 18 that criticized the critics, noting as usual that whatever the US does, its
enemies
in Iraq do worse, as if this excuses American abuses.
Third, how much should the US continue to invest in advanced, high-tech weapons more appropriate for conventional
enemies
than for fighting terrorists or insurgents?
But as the two US allies, who were once bitter enemies, improve their bilateral security relationship, China and Russia both fear that a close US-Japan-South Korea alliance could emerge as the equivalent of a mini-NATO to their east.
Al Qaeda is the West’s enemy, while Saleh’s true
enemies
are the Houthis and the separatists of the south.
“The least we can do to face this danger is to let our
enemies
know that we can defend ourselves.”
In some countries, like Slovakia and Poland, far-right nationalist parties provide another alternative, by offering the soothing appeal of traditional values and familiar
enemies.
Moreover, an emerging democratic Egypt that is reconciling with Israel’s sworn enemies, and that is bound to be more proactive in its defense of the Palestinian cause, is not viewed in Israel as a legitimate intermediary.
Mexico and the US don't need to be the worst of
enemies
or the best of friends; they can just be neighbors.
Hosni Mubarak was the lynchpin of the West’s policy: he was uncompromising with potential US enemies; he could be relied upon to appear at peace talks with the Israelis; and he could be used to add weight to the American position on Iran.
It all looks as if the need to integrate communities within nations, to reconcile them with their past in order to unite them around a common identity and therefore a common project for the future, has replaced Europe’s now-completed mission of reconciling old
enemies
like Germany and France.
They had heard him thunder, in speech after speech, that he would fight his enemies, rather than seek consensus, and disregard the international community’s protests.
Who were their
enemies?
Modernizing secular leaders (Nasser and Sadat in Egypt; the Shah in Iran); intellectuals who preached of a just secular order and exposed the excesses of the fundamentalist movement (Salman Rushdie); the small moderate Moslem middle class; the feudal, secular elites; infidels (moderate Moslems, Christians and Jews); and foreign powers that supported their
enemies.
But consider King Mithridates VI of Pontus, who took a tiny daily dose of poison to protect himself from poisoning by his
enemies.
The idea that you could treat political
enemies
jovially, and perhaps have a drink with them after hours – or enter into a coalition government with them – can seem not only unnatural, but even a bit indecent, in such circumstances.
In Egypt, for example, Saudi Arabia is supporting the military against the Muslim Brotherhood, whereas in Syria the Saudis are backing Salafists against the military, which receives support from Saudi Arabia’s main enemies, Shia Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.
These
enemies
of freedom are permanently silent about torture, oppression, and mass murder carried out by their fellow dictatorships, but are quick to rant against the world’s democracies, in particular the United States.
In Europe after World War II, the “small steps” policy, also called the “Monnet method,” enabled former
enemies
to put the past behind them and unite.
Defining TerrorismEvery age has its
enemies.
They wrote that Russia's
enemies
were bent on humiliating the powerless "Russian people, their objects of worship, and their historic values."
Who, precisely, were these powerful
enemies?
In response, China’s Defense Ministry proclaimed that “China and India are not enemies, not opponents, but neighbors and partners.”
All freedoms can be abused by liberty’s enemies, but in the case of speech, the risk posed by restricting freedom is surely greater.
And yet Trump extols the virtues of unpredictability – a potentially useful tactic when bargaining with enemies, but a disastrous approach to reassuring friends.
The author Zheng Yi reported that in Wuxuan County alone, more than 100 people were eaten, because devouring
enemies
was the only way to prove one’s love for Mao.
Only when foreign
enemies
looked different from what Americans conceived themselves to be could presidents wage war against a people as a whole.
There is also the strategic imperative of not ceding ground to India’s
enemies
on its own borders.
According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Putin regime’s leading ideologist, the current Russian system is perfect in all respects but one: it doesn’t know its
enemies.
It will subordinate all who really do work – traders, warriors, journalists, and others – to party ideologues whose sole job is to search for
enemies.
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