Best US allies in the war against terror

[Saint Marcus]

Best US allies in the war against terror

None. The yanks are on their own.

others just help when it's convenient

[Spiffor]

Great Britain and Israel, as they're the 51st and 52nd states of the US.
An independent country which follows another blindly does not exist. Many Americans curiously believe they have "Friend" countries. That's wrong : you can have "partners" in international relations, but never friends, as every nation (including the US) serves its interests rather than someone else's interests.

The US, and their British + Israeli colonies, are on their own, as Marcus said.

Edit : typos

[DerSchwarzfalke]

It takes a misguided person to label Israel and the United Kingdom as actual members of the United States...

[Jon Miller]

shoot

I forgot Israel (clicked on the UK otpion then votel...)

Jon Miller

[notyoueither]

Sorry Spiff, but I think there is genuine friendship among most nations of the Common Wealth and with the United States. I think it's because most people in these countries realize that we do share common interests, even if those common interests don't apply to everything.

[Carver]

Originally posted by faded glory
Now a serouis question. Why do all those countries end with "Stan"? Is it some of kind of tribal-language thing?

Its just a Farsi/Persian word meaning land, country or nation. Its popular as a suffix in that part of the world.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

What about Spain

[Shi Huangdi]

Britain of course is one. The Musharraf government has gone to unthinkable ends to help us. The Afghan people(And the internationally recognized Rabbani government for when the Taliban was in power) showed great bravery in defeating the Taliban and Al Queda. Russia has also been a good help to us.

Israel gets my vote as the worst ally during the war on terrorism. Their agressive and vicious actions before and after 9/11 is what is fueling the Moslem rage agaisnt us.

[Bereta_Eder]

afgani people fought with bravery?

please.

bunch of cutthroats worse than the taliban.

as for Israel. they're your allies, so you'll take the beating and you'll take it with a broad smile on your face.

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh come on - its got to be Australia - we go to all their wars

I didn't see many of the countries listed above going down for the count with Uncle Sam in Vietnam. We did, God help us. Our Government begged the Americans to let us send troops and then pretended they had asked for them.

Somalia? We sent a battalion.

Iraq? There's talk of an armoured Brigade - except we don't have one - its suspected the Minister is actually talking about 1 Brigade in Darwin.

We even managed to send a few officers to Bosnia, which has FA to do with Australian interests.

As a radio announcer mentioned this morning, if Tony Blair is Bush's poodle, what does that make us?

[Faeelin]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

As a radio announcer mentioned this morning, if Tony Blair is Bush's poodle, what does that make us?

The mouse who roared?

[faded glory]

Horse you really dont need an army. I mean, look where you are? Who wants to attack you? And if they did, you know the entire Western Civilization would come to help anyway.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by faded glory
Horse you really dont need an army. I mean, look where you are? Who wants to attack you? And if they did, you know the entire Western Civilization would come to help anyway.

Actually our strong military tradition evolved from isolation and fears of invasion. The theory is if we help great powers they will help us - so we're always climbing up somebody's bum.

Isolation can make you very paranoid and weird.

I think of it the same way places like ancient Crete provided to quality troops to just about any war that was going - for the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, whoever was dominant, they didn't care. We're like that.

[The Pioneer]

I voted for Great Britain but we should not forget Turkey with its muslim population which gives all the US campaigns a moral boost besides the geopolitical situation of Turkey which allows the US to have access to places not possible in any other way. Not to forget the Former Soviet Rep. are a wind of change and by assisting the US in low profile manner gives them the unprecedented opprtunity to expand its influences in far flung regions.

[Alexander's Horse]

I never thought I'd see the day when US forces would be based in former Soviet Republics.