It took two more years, and countless lives, before the Administration insisted that the allies accept the plan.

For half a century, every ally has accepted this - including France, which has deployed forces under our leadership even in engagements falling outside the organization's charter.

And tonight, as we have done before, America and our allies accept that responsibility.

Not all the United States' allies accept that argument.

With a few exceptions, though, Allende's Communist allies and others on the hard left still do not accept such thinking.

By waiting for such an event Mr. Bush gets a casus belli the American public and our allies can more readily accept.

But the Christian Coalition and its allies would not accept any suggestion that abortion was a matter of personal "conscience."

But it does not follow that the United States and its allies should simply accept the development of nuclear technology by just anyone.

Our allies would accept the inevitable, with greater or lesser grace.

I think that is a message which, I repeat, our Turkish partners and allies can and should accept.