Similarly, if Washington openly backs the country's secular opposition, those opponents will be viewed as American stooges and lose popular support.
Kyle Olson, the founder and chief executive of the foundation, said he decided to focus the video on Mr. Emanuel's education agenda, including his support for charter schools, partly because of the vocal opposition those efforts elicited from the union.
So are the "unofficial opposition" – those political parties that posed a credible challenge to Ben Ali's regime, which were banned, persecuted, decimated and exiled, from communists and nationalists to Islamists and liberals.
If they wake up after the next election to discover Labour in power or in talks with the Lib Dems, and their own party facing five years in opposition, those Tories might reconsider whether keeping an undemocratic Lords was such a great political prize.
In a title run-in against stubborn defensively-minded opposition, those are the most valuable strikes of all.
"We are all still annoyed, disappointed and angry with the goals that we conceded because it doesn't matter who you are playing if you give the opposition those sorts of opportunities there's every chance you could lose".
