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To those misgivings, however, they have recently added doubts over their capacity to defeat their enemies.
ECONOMIST: Israeli fiction
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For the most part, America's scorned allies lack the ability to defeat their enemies on their own.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Surviving in a post-American world
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The Republicans are like the Bolshiviks in that it is their goal is not defeat their enemies but destroy them.
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Moreover, we must recognize the infuriating fact that even if both countries decide to defeat their enemies, their embrace of victory will come too late for the soldiers killed in futile and pointless battles and for civilians murdered in terror attacks that could have been prevented.
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In Iraq and Afghanistan, they are risking their lives, and many have died, to defeat real enemies.
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Think about it: Our Islamofascist enemies and their allies are convinced that they can defeat us politically.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Democratic defeatism
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Their apologists would risk our ability to enjoy liberty in the future by insisting that we eschew well-established, legitimate and necessary wartime techniques such as covert operations to deny our enemies insights into our counter-terrorism actions, and to defeat their efforts to destroy us.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Get serious
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Like a Swiss clock, whenever leaders who preach nothing but defeat and retreat to their countrymen find themselves in a position of having to fight our enemies, they know they can count on men like Tzafrir to fight for them.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Patriots and false patriots
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Worse yet, that process was emboldening Israel's enemies to take advantage of its new vulnerability by finishing the attempt at staticide suspended after their defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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And as Taliban militants have been slaughtered by their Northern Alliance enemies this week, or have sheepishly surrendered or defected, so the idea of glorious defeat at the hands of the infidels has come to seem less compelling.
ECONOMIST: Gains in Afghanistan, losses in the battle of ideas