"France is virtually an enemy of the United States, " it said.

BBC: US press scorns Nato rebellion

It starts with explaining to Russia and our European friends and allies, that Russia is not the enemy of the United States ... that the attitude of mutually assured destruction is a relic of the cold war and that we must address the new threats of the 21st century if we are to have a peaceful continent and a peaceful world.

CNN: Russia rebuffs Bush on ABM treaty

Obama is trying to recast the image of terrorists from enemy warriors to cowardly thugs and move the United States away a state of perpetual war.

NPR: GOP Continues To Slam New Obama War Approach

The decision by the Obama administration to criminally charge al-Marri after he spent seven years in custody -- more than five years in virtual isolation in a Navy brig in North Charleston, South Carolina -- is the latest twist in the ongoing legal saga of the only remaining "enemy combatant" held in the United States.

CNN: 'Enemy combatant' ruling goes administration's way

At the same time, the sons of these so-called "enemy aliens" went off to fight for the United States.

CNN: Were branded 'enemy aliens'

Three years later, the Army's chief of staff concedes the United States is up against a highly adaptive "thinking" enemy.

NPR: Shift in Tactics Seen as Vital to U.S. Victory in Iraq

Given its assertion that states base their foreign policies on unsentimental assessments of their national interests, true realists would argue that there is no rational bar to enemy states sharing the same allies if doing so advances their national interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel and the 'realists'

IR--An alliance is a formal treaty or agreement between states, commonly for the purpose of mutual aid in the event of war against a common enemy.

ECONOMIST: No to NATO expansion