Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.
Marshall was one of George Washington's lieutenants in the Revolutionary War.
The US gave huge financial backing to Mr Musharraf during his nine years as president as Pakistan became a key ally in Washington's so-called "war on terror".
Britain has been Washington's greatest ally in the Iraq war, contributing troops to the initial invasion.
Snyder's ongoing war with the Washington Post--stoked recently by his media deals--hasn't helped.
NATO's recent summit in Washington, the war in Kosovo and the post-war challenge of once and for all de-balkanising the Balkans could soon cast Europe in a more impressive light.
The narrative switches back and forth from Washington's corridors of power to the Balkan war zones.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says opponents of war will question the purpose of the surge, if the Iraqis themselves cannot use the breathing space provided by US forces to find long-term solutions.
Pakistan supported the Taliban until the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that prompted the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
But Israel's ambassador to Washington accused Syria of preparing for war.
In a yearlong trial run that ended in the spring, 200 or so homes on Washington's Olympic Peninsula engaged in a daily bidding war for electricity.
During the war she was one of George Washington's most successful spies.
As the financial crisis that unfolded on Wall Street last week moved to Washington, it's become a full-blown political war, fueled in part by the approaching national election.
The US wished to quash Britain and France's residual post-war capacities to act without US support as Washington solidified its position as the unquestioned leader of the Western alliance against the Soviet Union.
"It's a war for survival, " Brown said, sitting in a Washington office filled with piles of reports and papers about the environment.
Long before Ebbets Field existed, beginning in 1883, Brooklyn's baseball team played in Washington Park, which is better known as a Revolutionary War site for the Battle of Brooklyn.
These revelations come at a time when Mr Obama is trying to re-set Washington's relationship with the Muslim world and trying harder than ever to win the war in Afghanistan.
Saddam, who faced a U.S.-led alliance in the 1991 Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, said he doubted that Washington would respond violently if the attackers were from a Western country.
It was not used after the Revolutionary War, however, until it was revived in 1932, after Washington's order establishing the award was discovered among his papers, according to the Web site of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
One scholar, Michael J Mazarr of the US National War College, has coined the term "strategic insolvency" to describe Washington's predicament.
Washington worries that such a strike could ignite a wider war in which it would be difficult for the U.S. to avoid getting involved.
Mr Bush wants to broaden his war on terrorism to include Colombia, as three of the country's warring factions are on Washington's terrorism list.
After the war, when the founding fathers reassembled in Philadelphia to craft the U.S. Constitution, Washington was named president of the Constitutional Convention, and he willingly served.
Later in the afternoon, Cheney, the vice president-elect, ascended a stage at Washington's George Washington University for his formal "Salute to America's Veterans, " an afternoon of tributes to veterans of World War II and the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf conflicts.
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