Pakistan prefers to make common cause with ethnic Pushtuns, who straddle the border, to guard against Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras, whom the generals regard as close to India, their arch-enemy.

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The State Department is delighted to see the arrival of an administration that does not regard Foggy Bottom as enemy-occupied territory.

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America does not regard the Yemeni government as an enemy, and it has even sent troops there to help in the fight against terrorism.

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