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How allies have helped the US gain independence, defend freedom and keep the peace – even as the US did the same for our friends

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Julian Zelizer : How the U.S. treats its allies has been a crucial question in every presidency.

He says George Washington warned Americans against “entangling alliances” in his farewell address.

Zelizer says the relationship between the US . and Europe now as “A Strained Alliance’s”.

Donald Heflin : U.S. entered World War II in alliance with Britain , the Free French and others.

Allies defeated Germany in three and half years and Japan in less than four years .

NATO and the U.N. are now 32 members, including Poland , Hungary and Turkey .

The value of allies to Americans appears to have shifted between George Washington’s attitude avoid them and that of Franklin D. Roosevelt .

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