Enemy
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A country whose weight in Middle East politics has stemmed more from its role as an engine of the Arab-Israeli conflict than from its objective military or economic power, Syria under the Assads always feared that abandoning ideological confrontation with the Zionist
enemy
would undermine the regime.
Tom Paine, the great American revolutionary and author of The Rights of Man, wrote: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
Today, the former allies are unable to work together, even when facing a common
enemy
like the Islamic State.
Now comes the crisis of the 90's-- the fragility of democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia, and the loss of a common
enemy
-- and therefore, it is said NATO must admit Poland, The Czech Republic, Hungary, (please include your country in his list), and other nations of the Warsaw Pact.
Why is the mighty Chinese Communist Party deploying all of its powers to kidnap – no word better describes what happened – such a tiny
enemy?
As The Guardian reported in 2011, women soldiers in Iraq faced a higher likelihood of being sexually assaulted by a colleague than they did of dying by
enemy
fire.
And the message from the top (as Rumsfeld put it, “the enemy” is not dressed in a uniform these days) fosters further desensitization.
And, third, in business one must not let the perfect become the
enemy
of the good.
By attacking one Muslim country after another, the US and its allies have created the impression that Islam itself is the enemy, leading inexorably to the “clash of civilizations” that America says it wants to avoid.
The international community must say clearly that Islam is not our
enemy
and that terrorism must be fought in other ways.
They were pitchforked into battle in unfamiliar lands, in climatic conditions to which they were neither accustomed nor prepared, fighting an
enemy
of whom they had no knowledge, risking their lives every day for little more than pride.
But the US knows that al-Qaeda is an
enemy
of convenience for Saleh, and that the danger to the US from post-Saleh chaos in Yemen is exaggerated.
To maintain their influence, it seems, they believe that they need to create an image of America as Russia’s implacable enemy, which, by extending NATO membership to ex-communist countries, is bringing an existential threat right to the country’s doorstep.
For them, America and the West remain the ultimate
enemy.
The problem with diplomatic paranoia is not that someone is after you, but that you are unable to tell the difference between a real
enemy
and an imagined one.
But government is not just a potential
enemy
of private property.
Fortunately, polls show that the American public has not yet succumbed to a hysterical portrayal of China as an
enemy
as strong as the Soviet Union was during the Cold War.
Today, we also share a common
enemy.
Not only has Bush destroyed Iran’s most formidable
enemy
and bogged down US troops in a hopeless cause; he also has enriched energy-abundant Iran and Russia by pursuing a war that has dramatically raised energy prices.
It was a textbook case of the old adage, “The
enemy
of my
enemy
is my friend.”
Such a relationship could survive just about anything – except the disappearance of the common
enemy.
But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the
enemy
of the future and distort our reading of the challenges of the present.
US participants represent a country at war in which energies are concentrated on defeating the enemy, "terrorism," whether of the Al Queda or Iraqi variety.
We barely know our enemy, except for the intensity of his hatred and the depth of his cruelty.
We are in the same boat, faced with the same
enemy.
It would help if the United States stopped viewing the EU as an
enemy
and NATO allies as free-riders.
And it is why it finds itself not only signing a nuclear accord with the Great Satan but also tacitly cooperating with it against the Islamic State, their common
enemy.
Hitler redefined the German Volk as the collective victim of an internal
enemy
that was tainting its blood – a type of narrative that, whether framed in terms of race, religion, or class, underlies genocide wherever it occurs.
In the face of a grotesquely violent enemy, an even more terrifying state apparatus of organized violence emerged.
Locked in a war that has already cost nearly $1 trillion, the US has now shifted its focus to making peace with the
enemy.
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