Not so with Pakistan, a new, if unsteady, ally of America in the war against terror.
He also spoke of his gratitude "for the sacrifices the Canadians are making in the war against terror".
It is the obligation of every Afghan to fight the war against terror.
But his book shows just how hard the war against terror will be.
But he has since broken with his party and sided with Bush on such issues as tax cuts and his handling of the war against terror.
The Bush administration - which in the past has praised Musharraf for his cooperation in the war against terror - offered a measured response to Bhutto's remarks.
The first answer is that the United States wants every bit of help it can get, even occasionally from those often feeble Europeans, in its war against terror.
The British prime minister's office said that the British officials and government sees Bush's speech as a very strong endorsement of the war against terror and the accomplishments so far.
In terms of the European allies, there has long been a difference between Europe and the United States on how best to pursue the "second phase" of the war against terror.
More significantly, President Bush's praise for Pakistan's leading role in the war against terror may just give General Musharraf the opportunity to wriggle out of a perilous situation on the question of Iraq.
Obama has said that, if elected, he will commit more troops to Afghanistan and order the military to end the war in Iraq, which he has called a "dangerous distraction" from the war against terror.
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An Iraqi war might thus put America back into its unilateralist box, which would not help it in the wider war against terror, and might complicate several of its other foreign-policy objectives, such as winning Russian co-operation for missile defences.
Kibaki is close ally of the US in the war against Islamic terror.
Due to Mubarak's commitment to stemming the tide of jihadist forces that threatened his regime, under his rule Egypt served as a major counter-terror hub in the US-led war against international jihad.
It is not clear which argument will prevail with voters (now, they distinguish between the two conflicts, saying war against Iraq was not worth the cost but supporting the war on terror by wide margins).
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By telling the U.S. to embrace the PLO, Israel found itself without recourse when -- in the space of just a few weeks from the euphoric signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden -- the PLO resumed its war against Israel, transforming the areas Israel had transferred to its control into the largest terror training bases in the world.
When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?
Obama's advisers said the new guidelines would effectively limit the number of drone strikes in terror zones and pointed to a future decline of attacks against extremists in Afghanistan as the war ebbs.
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