Rather than making foes more intelligent, Prototype simply keeps adding more and more of them.
Indeed, several centrist Democrats worry that a flawed deal may well be in the offing, pushed by a Secretary of State, John Kerry, who puts extraordinary faith in his ability to make foes see reason, and a president who has set red lines in the past and then failed to enforce them.
They made their foes the friends of their critics -- and they made the populist threat a self-fulfilling prophecy.
They thought our shock-and-awe war would change America's image, adding some muscularity that would make Arab foes cower and the world bow down to the U.S. as an unassailable hyperpower.
And in a possible reference to Trump's meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin Monday, Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission, tweeted: "Calling your best friends foes only makes your real foes happy.
Christmas had made the bitterest foes friends.
While Mr. Spitzer tries to repair ties with his old allies, his handling of the issue has only made his Republican foes more determined to keep after him.
Having vanquished his original enemies - political opponents, the adult entertainment industry, taxi drivers, street vendors, the media, museums and jaywalkers - he made two new foes: prostate cancer and his second wife, the actor Donna Hanover.
The Nittany Lions, who finished tied for fourth in the Big Ten and beat Michigan State, an eventual Final Four team, on the road, watched as seven of their conference foes made the tournament while they did not.
