# 'Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer/430610>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 19, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer/430610 "2007-12-19T19:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer/430610/21 "2007-12-23T01:33:12Z")

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Similar to “I’d rather have him in the tent pissing out rather then outside the tent pissing in.”

I’m not convinced myself,terrorists seem to be about as close in to western society as it can get but it doesn’t make me feel safer.

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