While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

George W. Bush always wanted to be like Ronald Reagan , rather than like his father.

[There are no significant differences between Bush and Gore on many issues, Buchanan said.] They both agree on NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), WTO (the World Trade Organization), China policy, Bosnia, both think bombing Serbia was a good idea, ... Neither will raise the issue of immigration.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.