Surveys of Indians show growing hostility towards the northern neighbour, which is seen by many as an outright enemy, mostly because of the border.
For a century and a half Mexico has -- often with good reason -- seen its powerful neighbor as an exploiter, if not an outright enemy.
Berger's characters seem less stable than the residents of Rivergreen, and the neighborliness-gone-bad is more ominous, as when he writes, "To have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable".
So what we really don't need is a dynamic wherein the tech industry absorbs and internalizes more and more champions of the status quo, phalanxes of risk-averse elite-school graduates raised by wealthy upper-class families, while the marginalized, the misfits, the dropouts, the weirdos, and the troublemakers increasingly begin to fear us or even view us as an outright enemy.
WASHINGTON ― For most of the last century, with the exception of World War II's partial thaw, America and its leaders have seen Russia as a dangerous rival, if not an outright enemy.
Of course, an even more fundamental problem, affecting all religions, as well as those atheist ideologies that treat some person or text as authoritative (for example, Mao's "Little Red Book," once the most printed book in the world), is the dogmatic mindset that there is a message that one must accept on pain of being deemed less worthy of respect, if not an outright enemy.
We've spent trillions of dollars importing oil, financing corruption, political adversaries and outright enemies for access to this oil.
During the first decade of Putin's rule, the Kremlin depicted its opponents as freaks or idiots, but now they are portrayed as outright enemies of their country.
This applies not only to outright enemies but to those (like the French) who do not join our crusade and even to those who dare criticize it.
The fighting has further muddied the lines in the historically fractured Syrian armed opposition, turning those who once were brothers in arms or friendly rivals into outright enemies.
"Whether it's outright enemies like the regimes in Iran and North Korea, or strategic rivals like Russia and China, hostile people are drawing conclusions from the choices we make.
