There are further reasons. When you create a gigantic defence (actually, it's offence) industry and a huge military and an enormous covert spying agency which deals in drugs, assassination, undeclared wars, and takeovers, you need official enemies in order to justify the allocation of funds and resources, and in order to justify using your dogs of war. If one official enemy goes down, another must soon be found. Otherwise there are huge vested interests who will find themselves in deep trouble, and important people will start losing money.

That can't be allowed to happen, so further enemies are always found...either abroad...or at home...or both.

This doesn't mean there aren't some real enemies. After all, anyone with such destructive programs underway as I described above is bound to have real enemies...a lot of them. It's the inevitable result of being the biggest criminal on the block.

Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel had real enemies too...and for the same basic reasons. He who lives by the sword and by treachery and by force is always in danger of dying by the sword and by treachery and by force. What goes around comes around.

This is also true of despots such as those in power in North Korea and Iran, by the way. They too create their own bad karma by their own negative actions and bad attitudes toward those they have assigned as their enemies.

So it goes both ways.