We're Out to lick death for human beings, not just for the armed forces of some one military coalition.

"He was there, we believe, and he made it out," said one official of the military coalition.

But he said that the military coalition would continue "to prosecute the war."

In Afghanistan, one policy maker boasted, "We were able to fashion a military coalition that didn't inhibit us."

Some of these trips, like Mr. Wolfowitz's, are intended to form a military coalition.

The leaders and the public also worry about the consequences of joining an American-led military coalition that could end up targeting other Muslims.

Even with the contributions of other nations, however, no Islamic countries are planning to join the military coalition.

On the other hand, we certainly need to acknowledge and learn from the mistakes which have been made in Afghanistan by the military coalition.

Collectively, those treaties define a military coalition intended to provide for the defense of all members.

Arab members of the military coalition now lined up against Iraq had feared that Israel might enter the war and split the alliance.