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Acute polarization is occurring everywhere, and it is here where the legacy of communist political culture is mostly keenly felt: an opponent is not someone with whom you argue or negotiate, but an enemy that you must destroy.
China is described as “the major battlefield of World War II in the East” (by implication downgrading the Pacific Theater, where the US was dominant), and August 1945 has become “the first occasion when China won a war completely against a foreign enemy.”
Just a decade ago, it would have been hard to imagine that Kuomintang veterans, once led by Mao Zedong’s great enemy, could have been given an honored place in an event organized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Taking an enemy by surprise confers a significant tactical advantage in war, and the invasion inflicted an immense psychological and political shock on India that greatly magnified the initial military advances that China achieved.
Once again, a subgroup of the population has been declared bandits and potential terrorists, satisfying people’s urge to find a clearly identifiable enemy who can be blamed for all that is wrong in today’s Russia.
For the Bosnian Serbs in 1992, the Rwandan Hutus in 1994, or the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, the real adversaries were not enemy combatants but the civilian population of a rival ethnic or cultural group.
If we treated China as an enemy, we were guaranteeing an enemy in the future.
When Israel is described "as the enemy of all good and the repository of all that is evil," says Professor Irwin Cotler, a member of Canada's parliament, it becomes a "teaching of contempt" within the UN.
This constant singling out of one nation as humanity's enemy is in fact a campaign directed against the Jewish people.
As Sun Tzu advised many centuries ago, “Ultimate excellence lies…not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy, without ever fighting.”
But with the euro in the balance, the perfect should not be allowed to become the enemy of the good.
The German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt might say that Trump had confused his friend and his enemy, dealing with the former as he should have dealt with the latter.
Every American president since Wilson has, at least once while in office, uttered the phrase “have no quarrel with” a foreign enemy.
Indeed, it seems as if everyone in the Kremlin is reading Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal theorist who taught that naming your enemy is the central mission of politics.
Because Peronist politics is defined by pragmatism and opportunism, not principle, leading Peronists have felt free to pursue their own ambitions as their traditional enemy, the Radical Party, looks set to secure a mere 2-3% of the vote.
So how do we fight such an amorphous enemy?
Corrections from the “elitist” mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda.
That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.
Underlying this argument is the idea that the attack was an explicitly religious act carried out by an enemy faith, whose believers – even those who denounced the atrocity – are tainted and deserve to have their constitutional rights restricted.
Their enemy is their own suspiciousness and paranoia which deludes them into believing that the world is still against them when it is not.
Finally, the repeated use of “Islamic" as part of the description of enemy groups may make it appear that the West is “at war with Islam."
The conservative US Senator Ted Cruz, who may be about to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, has said, “You cannot defeat an enemy if you refuse to acknowledge what it is."
Whatever Trump says, that does not make China an enemy of America.
Today, it appears that the Potsdam declarations of 1945, which sanctioned the mass eviction of German populations, are the new enemy.
During his campaign for the praetorship, an elected magistrate that ranked just below Rome’s ruling consuls, the elections had to be postponed twice because of fighting in the streets between his followers and the faction of his enemy, Annius Milo.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
Instead of the classic images of the US Cavalry courageously sweeping down on the savages, or of decent American doughboys bravely clearing out nests of Nazis, bored technocrats, insulated by immense layers of technology, firebomb green valleys, slaughtering enemy warriors and defenseless women and babies while sipping coffee and casually fiddling with touch screens.
Later, as Sully starts to become sympathetic towards those whom he has been sent to betray, he tells the bureaucrats: “If people are sitting on something you want, you call them the enemy.”
Consider Pakistan, for which repeated defeat at the hands of its sworn enemy, India, in conventional wars has been the catalyst for its readiness “to eat grass,” as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto famously put it, in order to counter India’s conventional superiority and nuclear capabilities.
The military use of drones, particularly by the United States to kill suspected enemy combatants in Pakistan, has fueled considerable debate.
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