These traits not only make us friends but keep our enemies to a minimum.
"The farmers are not our enemies, " says Solomon Dalid, spokesman for the Quisumbing Corp.
Which is why our enemies in that conflict, Germany and Japan, are now among our strongest allies.
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And Mr. Obama not only is not deterring our enemies, he is legitimating, enriching and emboldening them.
While the Iraq war winds down, our troops continue to take the fight to our enemies in Afghanistan.
They waged an ongoing conflict against their enemies who happen also to be the allies of our enemies.
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Of course, the more powered she is, it stands to reason that the more powerful our enemies will be.
"I think Barack Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies, " he said.
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No matter how resistant Obama may be to learning that basic lesson, our enemies will hammer it into him.
All that we ask is that others not make themselves into our enemies.
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And that is why we built an alliance that was strong enough to defend this continent while deterring our enemies.
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"It's still an exit sign and it sends the wrong signal to our friends and our enemies, " said Arizona Sen.
In the face of our enemies' overreaching aggressiveness, however, the American people now face a tipping point of their own.
Realism requires that we recognize these gains, not dismiss or disparage them--and that we distinguish between our allies in Iraq, and our enemies.
We should respect the right of other peoples to live as they please, as long as they do not make themselves into our enemies.
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"We get a little lazy, I think, when we spend all our time as diplomats talking to our friends and not to our enemies, " he adds.
We have to make peace by talking to our enemies that we don't like talking to - you do not make peace by talking to your friends.
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Above all else, we need to understand clearly our enemies -- to try to understand them as they see themselves, and to see them as devout nonviolent Muslims do.
You believed that at a time of war, we could stand strong against our enemies and stand firmly for our ideals, and show a new face of American leadership to the world.
Mr. Gertz reports that the Chiefs deemed it "too hot" to retain the services of a man widely believed to be the military's most knowledgeable expert on the Islamist ideology of our enemies.
America has, as Mr. Brennan noted in his remarks before the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Thursday, a powerful interest in not making all those who practice Islam into our enemies.
And my reaction to that is, look it, I mean, we have reconciled our enemies, horrific ones at that, with the Germans and most of the Nazis and the Japanese, and they became vibrant countries.
Our enemies would be denied the geo-strategic leverage they currently enjoy, as indigenously produced energy sources derived from coal, biomass and garbage knock the pegs out from under the cartel's control of the commodity upon which our transportation sector heavily depends.
"I say to those now who say we should just stop fighting in Iraq, just stop fighting in Afghanistan, just stop fighting the terrorists and this would just go away -- you need to get out and read what our enemies are saying, " Pace said.
It has been a long time since Republicans showed a fighting temper of this kind, unyielding in its contempt for what the choice of a Hagel represents about core values like the national defense, our stance regarding the most dangerous of our enemies in the world.
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Most Americans, knowing little if anything about the actual nature of Guantanamo Bay and understandably reluctant to engage in practices that would help our enemies, seemed open to what would, presumably, be a careful review of ways in which Mr. Obama's order could be safely accommodated.
Still others would include requiring every car sold in America to be a Flexible Fuel Vehicle, enabling them to run on ethanol, methanol, or gasoline (or a combination thereof), beginning at last the process of weaning this country from its oil addiction that so benefits our enemies in OPEC.
When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?
And I think it is absolutely important now for the overwhelming majority of the American people to hang on to that thing that is best in us, a belief in religious tolerance, clarity about who our enemies are -- our enemies are al Qaeda and their allies who are trying to kill us, but have killed more Muslims than just about anybody on Earth.
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