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An alliance is
like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links
to it. A great power like the United States gains no
advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed
peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance
should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to
get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine
in the State Department.
-- Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American
Journalist
'Tis our true
policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any
portion of the foreign world.
-- George Washington
1732-1799, First President of
the USA
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