But Taiwan has tried in the past to make such weapons behind America's back.
The operation in Macedonia will go ahead without the front-line participation of the United States, but it will need America's logistical back-up and unconditional support.
It was not lost on bin Laden - or America's other enemies - that when the U.S. economy declines, calls intensify for cutting back spending on America's defenses.
And now, as the US under Obama abdicates its leadership role in world affairs by turning on its allies and attempting to appease its foes while scaling back America's own military strength, Israel is the Sunnis' only hope for beating back the Shiite alliance.
When can we begin to put America's construction workers back on job sites rebuilding roads, rails, and runways across the country?
Not only have America's imports bounced back faster than its output, its imports from Asia have recovered faster than its purchases from less fortunate parts of the world, points out Frederic Neumann of HSBC.
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Pakistan has felt let down by America's failure to back it in its wars against India, and abandoned when, after helping Pakistan fuel the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan in the 1980s, America turned its attention elsewhere.
"Completing the work of education reform is a final exam for Congress before they go home in August for summer vacation and before America's children go back to school, " the president said in his weekly radio address.
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The pace of job loss is slowing and encouraging labour hoarding will hold back America's inevitable economic restructuring.
Yes, they say, they agreed to back America's war: refusing would have made an enemy of a superpower.
Kerry also raised the possibility of scaling back America's military presence in the Asia-Pacific region once the Korean nuclear crisis is resolved.
Last year, 21, 554 ran Boston, America's oldest marathon dating back to 1897.
By the mid-1990s, America's rail industry was back on its feet.
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America's attempts, going back more than a decade, to dissuade Mr Kim from building atomic weapons have had so many setbacks that a fair degree of scepticism is justified.
Now that the confetti has been swept from the steps of the Washington Monument and America's 43rd president is back on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, he has a fresh dilemma to confront: what to do with all the free time.
Mr Rasmussen wants NATO to build a missile-defence umbrella to link up America's network (scaled back from plans to have a large radar in the Czech Republic and interceptors in Poland) with smaller systems being developed by NATO and European countries like France.
But while the media couldn't get enough of the new US leader, America's most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America's role as the protector of the free world.
He has turned his back on America's allies around the world and ignored growing threats.
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It is time to inject more sense and reason back into America's debate over guns.
Even if the foreign-policy establishment wants to get back into America's favour, the public is less sure.
By showing himself a reborn anti-terrorist, Colonel Qaddafi has worked busily to get back into America's good graces.
For the Las Vegas resident, being an independent goes back to America's roots.
The growing charter school movement is a heartening sign that America's parents will eventually win back control of our schools.
Up until last week, the church had been shuttered only once in its history, which dates back to America's first European settlers.
But never mind: another round of apologies, and Middle America's churchgoing fans will settle back in front of the tube, ready to be shocked by the next scuffle.
However, America's ties to this city -- and to this country -- stretch back further, to the earliest days of America's independence.
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The books, which Mr Warren's father brought back to America as a German war souvenir in 1945, are among only ten surviving examples.
MID-JULY marks the start of peak season for the Californian ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as America's retailers stock up for the back-to-school and Christmas shopping seasons.
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