Enemy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/4/2006 09:47 AM, JL wrote:
>"Bad guys" was in frequent use during the unpleasantness in SE Asia.
>See HDAS.
>
>  In a world where "enemy" is a designation that may be fading from
>popular use,

Is George Bush really that unpopular?

(What comes up first for me on Google is the presumtively-official page
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/index.html
quoting him on July 4 of this year.)

Joel

>"bad guys" usefully distinguishes such persons from
>friendlier Vietnamese, Iraqis, etc.

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