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By treating all the varied segments of Islam as nothing more than parts of a unified threat to the West, they make it harder for Muslims to stand out and criticize their own block thinkers – people like Osama bin Laden, who are building their own unified enemy, composed of “Christians and Jews.”
Investors were wise to acknowledge that, in international capital markets, the perfect is the
enemy
of the good.
The anarchy along Israel’s borders is becoming a breeding ground for Sunni extremists for whom the Jewish state is the ultimate
enemy.
As
enemy
opposition remained light, the advance continued until Townshend's army encountered a Turkish force of equal strength entrenched on both banks of the Tigris at Kut.Crossing the river, the British attacked from the north on September 28 th , routing the Turks, who lost 5,300 men and all of their artillery.
However, a fall in the water level delayed the advance northwards and
enemy
survivors escaped to Ctesiphon, 16 miles from Baghdad.
The British initially succeeded in moving through the
enemy'
s forward lines, but as the Turks brought up more troops they were forced to withdraw.
As a result, he has failed to change strategic realities by, for example, reconciling America’s broader interests with those of Iran (a declared enemy), Pakistan (a “frenemy”), and Israel (a key ally).
But if voters are now jettisoning the left and its supposedly “pro-people” policies, it is not because they now prefer the “class enemy.”
His strength has been not to allow the perfect to become the
enemy
of the good.
The ideological
enemy
was the capitalist world, but the immediate enemies were “Trotskyists,” “revisionists,” and other “reactionary elements” inside the Soviet sphere.
One contemporary observer’s description of Baroque court culture could be applied to the Kushner-Bannon relationship today: “The court is a place where no friend is ever close enough not to become an
enemy
later.”
A No-Fly Zone for SyriaBRUSSELS – There is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy’s
enemy
is my friend.
This was most obvious with the intellectual responses to Islamist terror: terms like “Islamo-fascism” or “third totalitarianism” were coined not just to characterize a new
enemy
of the West, but also to evoke the experience of the anti-totalitarian struggles that preceded and followed World War II.
In effect, he presented government as the
enemy
of the market.
After all, the best way to engender enmity is to treat China as an
enemy.
Given the breakdown of the Right, there is a strong chance that Jospin's failure may usher in a period of serious French social upheaval and/or an even stronger rise by the National Front, the most determined
enemy
of Europe.
It can mean two or more countries joining forces to face a potential
enemy
more efficiently; or, on the contrary, to invade and gain control over some other country.
Russian leaders continue to perceive the West as a phantom
enemy
in opposition to which all the traditional mythologies of Russian foreign policy are being resurrected.
The image of the West as an
enemy
has become the only ideological excuse for Putin’s model of the corporate state.
Thus, the British Foreign Office is pilloried for being sympathetic to European Union technocrats; and US intelligence services are accused of leaking information to a press corps that has become “the
enemy
of the people.”
Civil servants – chinovniks – were the declared enemy, and concern that the bureaucracy would prevent the revolution from being fully realized fueled radicalization, and reinforced the idea that a revolutionary party must supplant the state altogether.
An organization like Hamas, which supports permanent war – and with which Israel negotiated for five years for the release of one abducted Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners – is exactly the
enemy
that Israel needs to justify its hardline stance.
With his lack of a military background, he seems not to have understood that external forces need to work closely with the local army, and that a sophisticated support network must be in place to avoid logistical disruptions resulting from
enemy
action or corruption.
The “New” Iraq InsurgencySun Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher of war, once wrote, “If you know the
enemy
and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
Several countries are pursuing policies that emphasize prevention and treatment rather than repression – and refocusing their repressive measures on fighting the real enemy: organized crime.
Indeed, with the worst now over, complacency is the Spanish economy’s worst
enemy.
As William Coen, the secretary-general of the Basel Committee, put it at a recent conference, citing former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, “for those working to keep our financial system resilient, the
enemy
is forgetting.”
All were termed “unlawful
enemy
combatants,” allowing the US to claim that they have no right to the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
Independent institutions are the most important
enemy
of populism.
Since Iran is the
enemy
(remember George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”?), it is better to deal with a president who talks and acts like a crazy thug, than with a reasonable-sounding figure who promises reforms.
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