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No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe – indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe – and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a fraction of Hitler’s power.
Still, Islamist rhetoric, adopted by Ahmedinejad among others, is deliberately designed to stir up memories of the Shoah.
After much old-style “Nasserite” rhetoric, they decided to create the Close Neighbors Economic and Trade Association Council.
But the relentless fear-mongering of populists, together with genuinely terrifying, tragic, and infuriating experiences, is undermining people’s better judgment, causing them to fall prey to inflammatory rhetoric.
And that effort would receive a major boost from further intensification of anti-Muslim rhetoric or, worse, the election of those who would turn rhetoric into policy.
The EU authorities must acknowledge that many member countries will never join the euro, which means abandoning their rhetoric about a “two-speed Europe,” with all heading – whether at high or low speed – toward the “ever closer union” that a single currency implies.
Both the far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the right-wing populist, Marine Le Pen, have put anti-German rhetoric at the center of their campaigns.
Many mistakenly dismiss resource nationalism, and the populist rhetoric that accompanies it, as a fig leaf for rent-seeking by ruling elites, or the coincidental fallout of domestic political infighting.
And blaming bad politics, rather than poor economic policies, for populist rhetoric could be a far more serious error.
This means dropping anti-American rhetoric and talk about “European power,” which is meaningless for the majority of EU states.
But such tough rhetoric might create a dilemma for Obama.
Obama’s rhetoric, and that of his most enthusiastic partner so far, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, has wobbled between the first two objectives and hinted at the third, creating hopes and expectations that all three will be effectively pursued.
Putin, meanwhile, has ratcheted up his much more explicit anti-American rhetoric since the Ukraine crisis, which he sees as a prime example of Western interference in Russia’s domestic affairs.
The centerpiece of Obama’s visit was his address in Jerusalem, in which – employing his characteristically compelling rhetoric – he won over the skeptical Israeli public by appealing to their sense of morality, asking them to imagine the conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
Indeed, beneath Obama’s rhetoric about empathy and the morality of peace was a clear message about the future of the peace process: the push for negotiations must come from the streets of Israel and Palestine.
In Indonesia’s case, the two most influential leaders so far have been Sukarno, who used powerful rhetoric to foster a sense of national unity in one of the world’s most diverse countries, and Suharto, who overthrew Sukarno and created a strong economic base that lifted millions out of poverty.
For all of the Obama administration’s lofty rhetoric, his fiscal-policy proposals make no serious attempt to address these problems.
A look beyond the cordial rhetoric reveals profound differences.
All that tough anti-Western rhetoric on behalf of the nation – the bare-chested horsemanship, the kissing of tigers, and the flying with cranes – has paid off: the aloof French have at long last recognized Russian superiority and are sending one of their greatest representatives to partake of it.
Indeed, African summits, which in the past saw democrats and dictators from different language, religious and cultural environments sharing the same table, usually produced little serious development policies because they indulged in pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
Indeed, the goal of regional co-operation could be perverted if empty political rhetoric is allowed to dominate sound policy-making.
By ensuring that the agreement aligns, to some extent, with the rhetoric of Russia’s strategic posturing, Western leaders would provide the Kremlin a minimally risky escape route from the current deadlock.
In other words, the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent increase in the rhetoric of democracy in the Middle East, may have changed frames of reference about the status quo.
For Asia's financial crisis of a few years back uncovered many excesses that hid behind the rhetoric of Asian values - the cozy relations between governments and elites; rampant corruption, cronyism and nepotism.
Other former elites may try to link self-protection to anti-Western rhetoric and nationalist sentiment.
Today’s Israeli leaders, however, in their rhetoric and behavior, often sound more like the old European anti-Semites.
Social resistance to immigration in a country like Germany, fueled by terrorist attacks and populist political rhetoric, could undermine the appeal of such a program.
The rhetoric, especially on the Republican side, will be muscular.
In 2009, they worked to defeat climate-change legislation by relying on anti-regulation rhetoric that demonized their own creation.
A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.
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