The US-Israel alliance's central weakness was US's perception of Saudi Arabia as its strategic ally.
The political commentators are depressed because, if anything is going to mess up this positive scenario, it's the US's politicians.
Yet, since checking Soviet expansionism and not securing Israel was the US's primary strategic aim, and since the US perceived Saudi Arabia as an ally against Soviet expansionism, the Reagan administration pushed the sale forward against Israel's strenuous objections.
And it was about as enjoyable as being forced to sit through the neighbours' slide show of their holiday snaps - here's one of us on the beach, here's one of us on the beach with the dog and here's one of the tide coming in.
Obama's statement also ignored the US's contribution to that attack.
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Ironically, all of these policies are consonant not only with Israel's strategic needs, but with the US's own strategic interests.
Implicit in Bush's view was the understanding that the US's most stable allies - and indeed only stable allies - are fellow democracies.
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As well as being EA's chief executive, Mr Riccitiello also chairs the US's Entertainment Software Rating Board - which decides what age guidance and warnings should go on games packaging - and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) lobby body.
That's us, that's our blue dot, not some stock image, or animation ...
Thatcher urged Nato's member states to "strive to maintain" the US's commitment to ensuring transatlantic defence against common enemies.
They have pointed out that the Obama administration's behavior - as well as that of many of its prominent conservative critics - is liable to have disastrous consequences for the US's other authoritarian Arab allies, for Israel and for the US itself.
The inclusion of America de Cali in the US's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list meant US nationals could not do business with it and any assets it may have had in the US were blocked.
She's visited with us before to help us sort out these issues and she's here with us again.
No less significant than what Livni's perfidious collaboration with the administration against her own government tells us about her character is what the nature of the Obama administration's assault on the Netanyahu government tells us about Livni's central strategic platform.
One newspaper editorial summarised the reaction by describing the US's problems as a delicious irony.
The US's central bank has confirmed information was stolen from its servers during a hack attack.
In March 2005 the US's military credibility in the region was at a high point.
But a deal on raising the US's debt limit has yet to be reached.
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He has many supporters - but every court has backed the US's claim of jurisdiction.
This presents a daunting, perhaps insurmountable challenge for the US's remaining authoritarian Arab allies.
The US's difficulties with confronting Iran have little to do with the decision to invade Iraq.
Perhaps Obama was relying on the US's 2007 National Intelligence Estimate about Iran's nuclear weapons program.
The second fact these statements ignore is that Israel is the US's and Europe's stalwart ally.
For all of these reasons, it is easy to get depressed about the US's future.
The problem is that the US's moves to appease its enemies empower them to keep fighting.
For instance, until 1979, Iran was one of the US's closest strategic allies in the region.
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