This is not a debate about American objectives in the current crisis.

The answer is not for Washington to scale back legitimate American objectives.

The revision of that agreement is a principal American objective.

In general, she said, the American objective was to "redefine the mission" toward more cooperation between military forces and the effort to rebuild the area.

He said the eventual elimination of farm programs remained an American objective.

Obviously we had to understand the European system in order to evaluate that American objective.

Reconfiguration of international economic strength means that foreign support for American objectives can no longer be assumed.

American objectives, however, involve far more than a peaceful transition to democracy.

American objectives in rebuilding Iraq cannot be realized without public security.

Yet it is not clear how fully he shares American objectives on fighting nuclear proliferation and international terrorism.