When your guiding principle is that your enemy's enemy will have to be your friend, you run all sorts of risks. You've only got to examine American Cold War policy about supporting dictatorships and terrorists to see that, not to mention the madness of some of the current political groupings in the EU parliament.
Greenpeace is now seeing the unwisdom of having this as a policy as it finds itself in bed with a bunch of climate change deniers just because they're also mindlessly opposed to all things GM. Here's Mark Lynas on the unprincipled mess that has resulted – mostly for the EU's hard-pressed taxpayers.
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