[Valin]

When we deal with any other country, except Israel, it is from a perspective of what is good for our national interest.

Wrong, Britian in the Falklands war. To name one case off the top of my head.

[Sabramerican]

What about the was against Serbia?

If it was in the national interest to accumulate Islamic good will, at least we learned that you can not accumulate Islamic good will.

[dlt]

Wrong, Britian in the Falklands war. To name one case off the top of my head.

And did Britain come whining to Congress, insisting that we pay for their war? While -- at the same time -- Britain eavesdropped on our elected officials, stole military and technological secrets and then sold them to the the USSR and China?