Sentence examples for supported the enemy from inspiring English sources

Eisenhower himself recognized that our side would have lost the elections (which we opposed) that were to be held in 1956 to unify both Vietnams because "the mass of the population supported the enemy".

At the scene of an evacuation, they usually used the phrase "hostile civilians," which hinted that all the villagers at least supported the enemy and thus all deserved to be "relocated".

We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon.

Is "supporting" the enemy enough?

Last year, Mr. Karzai's spokesman Waheed Omer attacked the group as supporting the enemy.

With no crisis, reformist elements in Iran can question the government without being accused of supporting the enemy.

The guards accused him of supporting the enemy, Mr. Khan said, shot his donkey and burned his rice.

Some judges have pushed back at President Obama's assertion of power, particularly when assessing the concept of "supporting" the enemy.

Fighting this insurgency is difficult enough, officials said, without having to worry about an allied spy service's supporting the enemy.

The detainee may also be denied information about how, where and from whom the information about the accusations supporting the enemy combatant charge originated if officials deem it classified.

Kilcullen was describing a willingness to show local people that supporting the enemy risks harm and hardship, not a campaign like the Phoenix program in Vietnam, in which noncombatants were assassinated; besides being unethical, such a tactic would inevitably backfire in the age of globalized information.