11.   Asking Europe to accept a total withdrawal of American ground forces from the Balkans needlessly challenges some of the basic assumptions of the Western military alliance.

12.   A military alliance by these countries against Israel is not a fantasy but the essence of strategy.

13.   Advocates of expanding the military alliance said it would unite and stabilize Europe, but opponents argued that it would antagonize Russia and perhaps ignite a nuclear calamity.

14.   Advocates of expanding the military alliance say that would unite and stabilize Europe, but opponents argue that it would antagonize Russia and perhaps ignite a nuclear calamity.

15.   Both are brought under the security net of the military alliance.

16.   Bush will also take up questions over how to expand NATO, the military alliance that stood sentry against the Soviets during four decades of Cold War.

17.   But because of the military alliance between the two countries, the United States was seen as tolerating or approving of the dictatorships, he said.

18.   But NATO is first and foremost a military alliance intended to protect its members from attack.

19.   But NATO is an Atlantic military alliance with a clear purpose to subsume Germany and keep Russians in Russia.

20.   But such emergencies are not fought with a new military bloc, nor with the extension of a military alliance already in existence.