The fact that the Arabs share common interests with the US does not make them allies.
First, he is largely ignoring Aceh's women's groups, most of which want peace at any cost and would therefore make natural allies.
But Grady proved a fast talker able to do a few private high-tech deals to stay afloat and make powerful allies when he came to look for his next move.
Change accompanied by a pledge that I will make known to allies and adversaries alike: that America maintains an unwavering friendship with Israel, and an unshakeable commitment to its security.
America must also be willing to make available to its allies advanced ballistic missile defences.
It tended to frighten our allies and make support of American leadership of the West more difficult.
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U.S. officials have envisaged that NATO allies would make up a large part of the residual force after 2014.
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton pressed Afghan coalition allies to make concrete commitments to funding Afghan security forces over the next decade.
U.S. officials have envisaged that North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies would make up a large part of the residual force after 2014.
Mr Bush will be keen to make sure that his allies are not straying too far towards appeasement of the Shia power across the Gulf.
In our opinion, NATO provides the best means for providing the organizational infrastructure which would enable America's allies to make a significant contribution in both economic and technological terms to the research, development and deployment of a system answering common needs and concerns.
France has shown great leadership on these issues, and as I indicated to President Hollande, when the United States and France, along with our other key allies, make up our minds to stand firm on the side of democracy and freedom and development, that enormous progress can be made.
But I have no specific announcement to make about discussions with our allies.
It may be hoping that its new long-range missiles would make South Korea's allies, including America, think twice before joining the fray.
Make sure you and your allies present credible, science-based information.
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"These long-time allies want to make sure the United States makes a sincere effort to exhaust alternatives to war, such as more rigorous inspections, a reasonable posture shared by many Americans, " said an editorial.
"International economic problems could lead to our allies having to make considerable cuts to their defence spending, and to an increase in economic migrants between EU member states, and to domestic social or political unrest, " it said.
And obviously many administration officials, including the Vice President, General Jones, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others will also make consultation calls to our allies over the course of the next many hours before the speech.
What I said was we can be successful in our mission, which is narrowly drawn, and that is to make sure that al Qaeda cannot attack the United States of America or our allies or our interests overseas, and to make sure that we have an Afghan government that -- and an Afghan people that can provide for their own security.
But the stakes are now high, and Mr Menem's nerves will not have been calmed by the new allies' decision to make corruption a key theme.
"As much as the Democrats and their allies would like to make this trial about Tom DeLay, this is not about Tom DeLay, " says Dan Allen, DeLay's spokesman in Washington.
We should make it clear to our NATO allies that if they want to maintain an alliance that is increasingly irrelevant there are going to have to be some changes.
His differences with important potential allies in the Panamenista Party make an alliance unlikely.
In addition to reestablishing a wonderful conversation with strong friends and allies, I wanted to make sure that everybody in our country, but everybody around the world, understands that the transatlantic alliance remains a cornerstone, a foundation stone for American security.
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It has a role in training and in harmonising equipment but when it comes to waging a real war in future, the argument runs, the Americans, as in Afghanistan (and as in the Gulf war 11 years ago), will make their own plans and pick their own allies.
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But if Hollande commits to disengaging troops without a reasonable transition, "it'll make a very bad first impression with his NATO allies, " Flanagan said.
Remarkably, our allies don't seem willing to make the needed structural changes--slashing suffocating taxes, blasting away at job-killing labor laws and reforming initiative-stifling welfare policies--to spark genuine growth.
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