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How do you define "enemy"

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In Reply to: RE: Hemispheres apart, both geographically & politically ….. posted by three_sox on May 10, 2008 at 02:35:04

Here's how Dictionary.Com defines it:

1. a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.

2. an armed foe; an opposing military force: The army attacked the enemy at dawn.

3. a hostile nation or state.

4. a citizen of such a state.

5. enemies, persons, nations, etc., that are hostile to one another: Let's make up and stop being enemies.

6. something harmful or prejudical: His unbridled ambition is his worst enemy.

7. the Enemy, the Devil; Satan.
–adjective

8. belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals: enemy property.

9. Obsolete. inimical; ill-disposed

Definition #1 seesm to fit some posters here at the WC while # 2,3,4 seem to fit the US's involvement in Iraq.

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