just because your enemy is going doesn't mean you can't.
Senator Obama's willingness -- even anxiousness -- to engage our enemies isn't because he is silly enough to think he can win them over.
"Our enemy in the world is Israel, so we also like Turkey because our enemy's enemy is our friend".
Rick Santorum, the hardest of the foreign policy hard-liners among the Republican candidates, said in a speech that in Iran "we sided with evil because our president believes our enemies are legitimately aggrieved and thus we have no standing to intervene".
Kemp told the BBC: "I don't think it will cause huge outrage there because I don't think our enemies are going to be particularly concerned about this.
In fact, that is why we had such success in the fall of '01, because we had engagement with a wide variety of Taliban commanders and local tribal leaders — because our enemy, it was not necessarily the Taliban, and certainly not Afghanistan.
Now Mr Chávez wants to turn it into a mutual defence pact that would protect its members from attack by the United States or its ally, Colombia".We should work on a joint defence strategy," Mr Chávez said this week, "because [our] enemy is the same the United States empire".
On an open field, you will die 90% because your enemies are focusing the spot.
But the goal should be containment, not victory, because the enemy is uniquely intractable.
