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Russia is no enemy of the West;Vladimir Putin is.
Stealth bombers and fighters, meanwhile, use freon fuel additives to reduce the number of exhaust particles that could otherwise be detected by enemy sensors.
According to the Israeli historian Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, “In classic dehumanization scenarios, whether in Nazi Germany or in Rwanda before the genocide, you refer to the enemy as rats and cockroaches, and that enables you to kill them on a large scale.”
The Westernized cosmopolitan urban elites were the enemy.
But if that is permissible, why is it wrong to aim directly at non-combatants if killing them will have a good chance of inducing the enemy to cease hostilities, withdraw from occupied territory, or grant independence?
Everyone is presumed to be inviolable in this way until he himself becomes a danger to others; so we are permitted to kill in self-defense, and to attack enemy combatants in war.
The Turkish-Dutch headmaster of the Muslim school in Uden that was burned down after van Gogh's murder voiced the inhibitions we all feel when he asked, rhetorically, "Is the enemy not within us?"
For the Syrians, a democratic Iraq friendly to the US was always far worse than Saddam Hussein, the enemy they knew – and later profitably traded with – during the years of international sanctions against Iraq.
But few anticipated that the US would adopt such a harsh tone in expressing its displeasure – a response that was likely driven by America’s fear for the region’s increasingly fragile peace (and perhaps, on some level, by the recollection of Japan as the enemy that attacked Pearl Harbor).
What we can say is that the disease itself is the wrong enemy.
And here, the perfect must not be allowed to become the enemy of the good.
True, the defense against missiles which Bill Clinton (reluctantly) and George W. Bush (enthusiastically) are proposing – with massive support from America’s Congress – is different from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars dream of twenty years ago: NMD is supposed to catch only a modest number of warheads, not provide complete protection against enemy missiles.
He concluded his admonition by declaring that, “The enemy is on the right” – a statement that ended up only fanning the flames of tribalism even more.
That language comes close to warning that the Guardian editors involved might be accused of having “aided the enemy,” which is an element of the US Espionage Act.
The 2008 global financial crisis not only caused much pain; it also reinforced the conviction that Wall Street is Main Street’s enemy.
In 1998, when India tested its nuclear weapons, the defense minister referred to China, and then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke of China as India’s number one enemy.
A withdrawal of US and other NATO troops will not mean the end of the war, because the enemy will continue to target Western interests, wherever they may be.
The task of the Obama administration will be to bring the various factions together to fight the common enemy, the people behind the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
In war, this irregular contingent of hackers would become the vanguard behind which the PLA takes on the enemy.
The only country Trump really cares about – his “public enemy number one” – is China.
But, like South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or the Catholic sacrament of confession, Goldschmidt’s plan would prevent the perfect from becoming the enemy of the good.
Almost immediately after defeat in WWII, Japan metamorphosed from being America's enemy into its pampered protégé.
The West and Saleh do not have the same enemy.
Al Qaeda is the West’s enemy, while Saleh’s true enemies are the Houthis and the separatists of the south.
Are we Russians really the enemy?
“Egypt does not view Iran as an enemy,” proclaimed Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi.
Already, the new Egyptian finance minister, Samir Radwan, has made it clear that he does not favor investments from “the enemy” – that is, Israel – which might lead to a takeover of the Egyptian economy.
Hekmatyar and Al-Qaida expect their task to be easier since the enemy is likely to have its attention focused on Iraq.
With her consummate pragmatism, she has become her own worst enemy.
Any delay to the treaty, however, will embolden those in Moscow who would rather have the West as an enemy than as a partner – and who thus would like to see the tenuous progress made in recent months to be undone.
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