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The ideological and strategic rift between ISIS and Al Qaeda notwithstanding, an alliance against the common
enemy
– the incumbent Arab regimes and the West – cannot be entirely discounted.
As the US military commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, has acknowledged, “It’s very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when your
enemy
enjoys external support and safe haven.”
Many have read and seen enough to feel acute shame about being part of a nation that could go to war with righteous ideas and end up replicating, if not aggravating, the abuses of the "rogue state" Americans called their
enemy.
In his searing study of human courage and cowardice, “An
Enemy
of the People,” the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen wrote, “A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
Arab states don’t want to help their worst
enemy.
Consider how Trump’s early overtures to another strongman, Chinese President Xi Jinping, gave way to a full-blown trade war against that country, which Trump now portrays as America’s
enemy.
If nothing else, having a common
enemy
will help the US and its Arab allies restore damaged ties.
But, from the perspective of Iran’s leadership, the taunting has tactical value to the extent that it reinforces the view among the Israeli public that Iran is a dangerous enemy, willing to retaliate fiercely.
Reasoning that the
enemy
of their
enemy
was their friend, the CIA trained and armed thousands of Afghan mujahedeen – the jihadist force from which al-Qaeda and later the Taliban evolved.
The US has also refused to eliminate militarily the Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan, even though, as Nicholson admitted, “[i]t is very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when your
enemy
enjoys external support and safe haven.”
Alliances have often been conceived as representing little more than a calculation that “the
enemy
of my
enemy
is my friend.”
It is not the
enemy
or rival of religion, he says.
Yeltsin’s choice of Putin – encouraged, ironically, by Boris Berezovsky, the prominent Russian oligarch and Yeltsin advisor who is now exiled in London as Putin’s mortal
enemy
– was based on his belief that the quiet apparatchik, even if a former KGB spy, was a democrat at heart.
We should not make the best the
enemy
of the good.
At the same time, the left seems eager to portray anyone who substantively disagrees with its proposals as an
enemy
of the people, helping fuel both economic illiteracy and a hollowing out of the center.
On the assumption that China is a strategic
enemy
of the US, it is imperative that the American people embrace technological innovation to win the race for world leadership.
It is the tool of governments that are, in fact, the
enemy
of their people, for it benefits only the ruler – never the victim, whose pain is magnified by neglect.
But the perfect should not be made the
enemy
of the good.
What should we Poles do about this
enemy
within?
Carl Schmitt believed that knowing one's
enemy
was the essential ingredient of politics.
Which group, society, nation, or religion speaks about us openly as their
enemy.
Of course, it is noble to hesitate before declaring someone an enemy, but when someone talks and acts like an enemy, doubts must disappear.
Similarly, bilateral requests that North Korea had made for years, such as repeal of its designation by the US as an
enemy
in the context of the “Trading with the
Enemy
Act,” once delivered, were dismissed as unimportant.
Indeed, Egypt’s former Mufti, Sheikh Nasr Farid Wasil, has already declared Bin Laden a martyr, “because he was killed by the hands of the enemy.”
True, but in politics the best justice can be the
enemy
of the general good.
Prior to September 11 th , it could not make much headway in implementing its ideology because it lacked a clear mandate and defined
enemy.
Terrorism provided the ideal
enemy
because it is invisible and never disappears.
Nevertheless, economists get stuck with the charge of being narrowly ideological, because they are their own worst
enemy
when it comes to applying their theories to the real world.
What was it that made France so formidable an enemy, particularly of Russia?
They also know who the
enemy
is and can play a role in isolating militants from local people.
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