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Indeed, Iran has likely benefited more than any other country from US-led regime changes in Afghanistan and Iraq, as both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were the country’s sworn
enemies.
This means directing his ire and that of his supporters toward others – whether internal
enemies
like the press, the intelligence community, and Barack Obama, or external adversaries like the Islamic State and China.
We have already seen Trump’s tendency to lash out at perceived enemies, foreign and domestic.
In response, the government has branded its opponents as enemies, and sought to promulgate new laws undermining the independence of the judiciary and restricting freedom of expression – including shutdowns of Twitter and YouTube.
The return to power from the political wilderness of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Alan Garcia in Peru, two of the most demonized
enemies
of US foreign policy during the 1980’s, provides sardonic testimony to this.
There was a time in the early twentieth century when the West was defined by its
enemies
(many of them in Germany) as Anglo-French-American liberalism.
The messianic idealism that liberated Europe from Nazism and protected Western Europe from communism is now directed at other
enemies.
His nationalist credentials were so impressive that he could afford to be relatively easy on former
enemies.
Set up to protect the weak against the strong, labor unions had become, by the 1970’s,
enemies
of economic progress, a massive force of social conservatism.
But if that charge is true, it is not because Obama desperately wants to fulfill the pledge that he made early in his 2008 election campaign: to negotiate with America’s
enemies
and find common ground.
The vote supported those who felt that "those who make wise decisions are more formidable to their
enemies
than those who rush madly into strong action."
“War” would have meant acceptance of the terrorists as legitimate enemies, in a sense as equals in a bloody contest for which there are accepted rules of engagement.
Annan did become entangled in the oil-for-food scandal, which his neoconservative
enemies
exploited to the fullest.
In Eastern Europe, the resurgence of authoritarianism – which prevailed in the region even before the Communist era – is propelled by an ingrained fear of being sandwiched between two traditional enemies, Germany and Russia, both of which are still viewed with apprehension.
Today, even AKP supporters need to measure their words carefully, lest they be perceived as criticizing the government or siding with its
enemies.
The conference changed a lot of people’s perceptions of themselves and their
enemies.
Populism and Euroskepticism are the
enemies
of that project.
Enemies
of big government (who see austerity as a golden opportunity to shrink it) coalesce with European social democrats (dreaming of more options for when they win government) and tax-cutting Republicans (determined to dismantle America’s New Deal once and for all).
Meanwhile, Bashir, with little to lose, will no doubt take the opportunity to attack his
enemies.
In fact, ASEAN’s erstwhile communist
enemies
– Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam – decided to join the bloc.
Evocative historical dates are being used or abused in a similar way on the other edge of the European continent, to conjure up images of
enemies
that resonate in contemporary political debates.
In an effort at damage control, the regime became preoccupied with confronting its domestic
enemies
while simultaneously labeling the terrorists “foreign,” “ignorant of Islam,” and, yes, even “Zionist.”
In short, the riches, jobs, and development that would flow to all countries in the region from responsible energy exploitation may well be blocked by the insistence of each on getting what it regards as its fair share and denying access to its
enemies.
Casting Muslims as
enemies
– and denying them entry to America, as he vowed during his campaign – would be a powerful recruiting sergeant for the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, as is suggesting that the US ought to seize Iraq’s oilfields for itself.
But with oil prices remaining relatively low, the Kingdom can no longer rely on its traditional policy of buying friends and buying off
enemies.
He has many enemies, but also a reputation for prodigious energy and efficiency.
a) The US and the USSR were enemies, bearers of incompatible creeds and ambitions: it took seventy-one years after the October Revolution for a Soviet leader - i.e.
America’s war on terror now risks becoming a permanent war against an expanding list of
enemies
– often inadvertently created by its own policies.
An endless war waged on America’s terms against the
enemies
that it helped to create is unlikely to secure either steady international support or lasting results.
As a consequence, much of the political elites could never be won to back the impersonal market, which made no distinction between them and their old
enemies.
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