Such efforts will likely be influenced by a growing awareness on Capitol Hill and among nongovernmental groups of this potent new source of U.S. foreign-policy leverage and a recognition that it can be exploited largely without the collateral damage to U.S. interests (harm to exports and jobs) inflicted by trade sanctions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The closeness of Anglo-American military and intelligence ties, driven by the cold war, became a defining feature of British foreign policy and a source of tension between Britain and France, which led de Gaulle twice to veto British membership of the then European Economic Community, on the grounds of Britain's irremediable Atlanticism.

ECONOMIST: Britain and the cold war

BUSH'S UNWILLINGNESS to carry through on his freedom agenda in the face of unrelenting opposition from Europe, the Arabs and his foreign policy establishment is what has prevented him throughout his presidency from contending with the greatest source of volatility and danger in the region - Iran.

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