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The Enemy Of My Enemy Is Not My Friend

  The enemy of my enemy, by definition, is not my friend. To say otherwise, is an inversion of the truth. To be a friend would require additional qualities to base that on. It’s rhetoric, and rhetoric is emotionally convincing. It’s possible they’re also my enemy, my friend, useful, an ally, or just somebody. They may be not my enemy, but also be instrumental in keeping my enemy in power over me, or kill me along with that enemy. Here is where mental technicality needs be set aside. When dealing with a people that will: brand someone a criminal, on the face, when the person is innocent, because their reputation was not so pristine that it was not above reproach; or kill off a family to several generations, for the actions of a few individuals within it; After war, colonized a people to extinction; Why in the world would one leave the parasite and also the enemy of the parasite in any position of strength? The better move would be to make the enemy of the enemy ineffectual, and remove t