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An honest offer of engagement would allow Ahmadinejad’s pragmatic
opponents
to show that it is Iran’s president and his controversial policies, not the West, that are at fault.
A country whose people have traditionally prided themselves on practicality is experiencing a debilitating bout of excessive theorizing, ideology, and so-called “new ideas,” thereby forestalling the practical ideas that come from constructive interaction with one’s political
opponents.
At one moment he is the “responsible” world leader who speaks charmingly to the international media about moderate Islam; at the next, he is the cunning conspirator who rigs elections, destroys political opponents, breaks promises on relinquishing power, enters into mutually beneficial relationships with mullahs, and castigates human-rights activists as “Westernized fringe elements” that “are as bad as the Islamic extremists.”
Instead, each side has caricatured the other: supporters emphasize that QE has nowhere led to runaway inflation, while
opponents
point out that nowhere has QE alone reignited robust growth.
What motivates the
opponents
of free service provision and labor movement in Europe is not a desire to ensure social cohesion, but a wish to maintain the status quo.
Rich and aging countries may finally become promoters, rather than opponents, of free trade in food.
In France in 2002 and 2017, the right-wing candidates – Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen, respectively – were soundly defeated when voters rallied behind their second-round
opponents.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently used the courts to neutralize his
opponents.
The communiqué became a lightning rod for Thaksin’s
opponents
at home, spearheaded by the People’s Alliance for Democracy.
Exacerbating matters, the PAD progenitor of that insult became Thailand’s foreign minister after Thaksin’s
opponents
regained power in December 2008, led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and reinforced by the army.
TRT candidates threw money around during the campaign as effectively as their
opponents.
His trouble was with powerful
opponents
in Iran’s security apparatus, who sabotaged his pragmatic foreign-policy initiatives by staging terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Argentina.
They also assume that governments will have to the courage to back them as their
opponents
accuse them of socialism and crimes against freedom, innovation, dynamism, and so on.
As for the Republicans, who control both houses of the US Congress, even once-vocal
opponents
– such as Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz – now lick Trump’s boots.
Moreover, Putin himself is in the business of sterilizing Russia’s democratic processes by handpicking his successor and having his courts and electoral commissions block his
opponents
from political participation, often tarring them as traitors.
Despite Trump’s own business record – which, his
opponents
will point out, includes multiple bankruptcies and non-payment of contractors and their workers – it’s possible that he is now trying to change a business and investment culture that elevates the interests of capital, corporations, and shareholders, and treats labor as expendable.
Although
opponents
of the Iraq war might accuse the United States of coveting the country’s oil fields, the campaign was uneconomical, to say the least.
The key rule here is that the winner in any power play must not shut out his
opponents.
Although systematic human-rights abuses may have ended, endemic corruption in many countries persists, along with government efforts to stifle
opponents
and stamp out criticism.
For many
opponents
of coal, the issue is global warming.
Saudi rulers regard the battle between Assad and his
opponents
as part of the Kingdom’s existential struggle against its main adversary, Iran.
His misguided efforts at compromise only fuel his opponents’ frenzy.
Yes, Lee’s system enabled him to remain in power for 31 years, and he did use the civil – not criminal – courts to harry his
opponents.
Putting one’s
opponents
in the criminal dock seems unlikely to produce a similar result.
As his
opponents
have hardened their stance, Russia has become ripe for a peaceful anti-criminal revolution.
Meanwhile,
opponents
of EU membership have yet to make the case for a credible alternative.
Soroush's ideas are also spread by the informal talks he gives at Tehran mosques, gatherings that include young clerics, regime opponents, intellectuals, political independents and even government technocrats.
Trump’s
opponents
were quick to see Barr’s act, as well as her tweet, as typical of the kind of working-class bigotry that the president is actively encouraging by example.
Opponents
of Juliana, including the politically influential energy industry, cynically hope that they can succeed in getting the case dismissed and put generational rights in the hands of a deeply divided – and, for powerful vested interests, pliable – Congress.
Like the
opponents
of emancipation in the 1850s, they count success in terms of the few months or years they can continue to benefit from the Constitution’s lacunae.
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