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They are, for starters, those who, regardless of party, have had nothing critical to say about the full state reception that Russian President Vladimir Putin just staged at the Kremlin for that multi-recidivist enemy of the West (and butcher of his own people), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
As in Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia, purveyors of ideas, information, and emotions are the enemy in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, especially if the people espousing such ideas happen to work for a foreign organization.
But the most important questions are these: Will the face of the enemy become clear?
In the Middle East, the enemy of your enemy is most likely still your enemy.
A common enemy is a common cause, which could become the cornerstone of a shared future.
At the time, hardliners on both sides denounced the LTBT as a weakening of national defense in the face of an implacable enemy.
Saudi Arabia, for its part, stands to gain from Iraq’s success against ISIS, a sworn enemy of the House of Saud, and from its help in calming Shia dissent in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern province.
b) The Americans no longer feel challenged by a global enemy.
He surely adhered to the enemy, giving much more than aid and comfort.
Jakes and Lenart may have sided with the Russian enemy in 1968, but it is not clear what the state gains by beating a dead regime with yet another trial.
Economic globalization risked provoking a backlash by provincial populists, while the external enemy – the glue that held the neo-conservative movement together – had disappeared.
Whatever the various, often overlapping, causes of conflict – ideology, religion, ethnicity, competition for resources – the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz two centuries ago gave the pithiest answer to the question of why we resort to violence: “War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.”
Yet, while ISIS had to be stopped, it was never the West’s most formidable enemy in Syria; that title goes to the axis of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime – an axis against which ISIS was actually a counterbalancing force.
A 2013 essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, titled “India’s Feeble Foreign Policy,” focused on how the country is resisting its own rise, as if the political miasma in New Delhi had turned the country into its own worst enemy.
Now, as president-elect, he has picked Representative Tom Price of Georgia, an avowed enemy of Obamacare – and you might say of Medicaid and Medicare (which provide coverage to the poor and elderly, respectively) – to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
As president, Lech Kaczynski was an enemy of anti-Semitism in Poland and celebrated Hanukkah in a synagogue.
Focused on destroying enemy submarines, it involved more than 7,000 personnel from the US alone, and featured for the first time aircraft carriers from all three navies: America’s nuclear-powered USS Nimitz, Japan’s Izumo helicopter carrier, and India’s aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.
This led to the second, far more deadly jihadist wave, as Al Qaeda launched spectacular attacks against the “far enemy,” seeking to draw Western powers into violent confrontation and outright war.
But successful integration with the West presupposed reconciliation with France, the old enemy and neighbor.
People who call for greater “transparency” do not understand that complexity is the enemy of transparency, just as simplicity is the hallmark of trust.
A low-trust society is the enemy of freedom.
As Orwell noted, “[t]he great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
During the Cold War, the presence of a common totalitarian enemy seemed to provide Europe with its moral purpose.
Lest we forget, the post-war global and regional order’s purpose was to integrate the former enemy powers so that they posed no danger to one another.
The impending fall of Israel’s most reliable enemy, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, concerns Israel almost as much as the loss of its ally, Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak.
While some important victories have been won in this war, for lack of US leadership one battle has already been lost - the definition of the enemy.
Terror is a shadowy enemy.
The first law in strategy is to be clear about who your enemy is, to focus on him and not be deflected.
With the help of powerful groups within the US Administration, the Israeli government succeeded in redefining America's enemy in the "war on terror" to mean not only Osama bin Laden's globally operating Al Qaeda network, but every militant group of Palestinians that resists Israel's occupation.
Sharon is not alone in hijacking the definition of the terrorist enemy.
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