And lo and behold, it was unable to defeat a tactic because a tactic isn't an enemy.
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As Oscar Wilde said of Bernard Shaw, he hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
But, he says, he doesn't underestimate his enemy.
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And I mean the responses I think run the gamut from people who would say just give us more troops and everything will be fine, and the other people who are telling me in Anbar province earlier this year that these people don't want us here and we can't find the enemy.
He said himself, 'I don't like the rich' and 'my No. 1 enemy isn't Sarkozy but the financial markets'.
They don't plan based upon enemy intent, but rather based on enemy capabilities.
"No, since I'm in an area where I don't know where the enemy could be, from when I get on the airplane 'til I get off the airplane, I'm thinking the same way, " Maj.
But, as they say, we can't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
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It just doesn't pay to be an enemy of the open source movement these days.
To a bull, the market's enemy isn't boom-and-bust cycles, but bad economic policy.
This year, however, the forces didn't face any single simulated enemy.
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It's fine to look for ways to improve the measuring tools, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Scientists have been trying for decades to understand why the body's immune system didn't see cancer cells as the enemy and attack them.
Even then, I didn't really get into it until Public Enemy "Nation of Millions" when I was about 15.
"I think we were our own worst enemy, our execution wasn't what it should have been, " he said.
"There were a lot of civilians near the enemy, so we couldn't fire on them, " said Joemar Monte, one of the injured marines.
Why can't we unite and fight against our real enemy - poverty?
Even in front of explicitly conservative audiences, Bush continued his theme that government was not the enemy, but just wasn't being used for the proper ends.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Exactly, because there were so few of us and so many of the enemy that, you don't want to be in gun fights with people like that, you want to use air power, you want to leverage technology.
But their bottom line argument amounted to this: A military commander at a secure overseas military facility in a time of war couldn't remove disruptive lawyers who were inciting captured enemy detainees and endangering the safety and security of military personnel unless he first got permission from a federal judge.
But the system grew rife with abuse, since most privateers couldn't be trusted to limit their pillaging only to enemy ships.
By printing out new cheat sheets as often as every game, teams aren't even vulnerable if an old copy falls into enemy hands.
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"I can fly a single-seat aircraft in enemy territory, but I can't drive a vehicle, " she said on a recent CBS 60 Minutes television show.
You know, but it's a process, and I don't think I would wish the experience on my worst enemy.
If multiplayer doesn't stand out as much as it might, blame the enemy AI in the single-player game.
Controls were responsive and worked fine, although there weren't any accelerometer-driven actions -- you tapped on an enemy to fire at it, and double-tapped to super-jump.
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Don't expect any Senators to change their party stripes for a committee chairmanship from the enemy.
Mr. FRANK LIBUTTI (Undersecretary, Homeland Security): We don't have the luxury of having in our back pocket the attack plan devised by the enemy.
According to David Throckmorton, a project manager in Homeland Security's Science and Technology division, the resulting images aren't exactly drool-worthy, but they do allow you to make out a stash of weapons or a crouching enemy.
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