Originally Posted by t walgamuth

If you look around the world you will find that we have a small handful of allies with whom we have special relationships. I would probably put Isreal, England, Germany, France(not always), Canada, and Japan on the list. These are countries with whom we have the closest relationships with and will likely never have a serious rift.

I read about half the article. It did not seem like we could do much else given the nature of our relationship with Isreal.

It would be good to have good relationships with all the Arab countries too but how reliable are they? We are probably one election (if applicable) away from a major change in any of their relationships with us.