An Enemy (n.) abroad is the best way to keep a population quiet: facing a big enemy, people will give up their rights to survive.
An Enemy (n.) is made diabolical on demand: the very crimes that were irrelevant in a favored friend become the reason he must be destroyed.
Enemy (n.) is discovered when it turns out to regard us as a rival — proof that the gentle country was quietly treading the path of evil all along.
The Enemy (n.) has mostly been, on honest review, not Moscow but the native populations of the Grand Area who fall prey to the wrong ideas.
Enemy (n.) is defined in U.S. policy by independence, not crimes: Noriega ran drugs, tortured and stole elections as a "good guy" until he stopped taking orders.
Enemy (n.) is best chosen defenseless, so confrontations can kill many of its people and its reply can be used to stoke fear at home.
Enemy (n.) of the government becomes the enemy of the press, which cannot even call it by its own name.
Enemy (n.) was, in the American press, simply whoever resisted the U.S. attack — a label reporters took on without noticing it was a side.