And, as we've been a good friend to other countries in moments of shared perils, so we have good reason to expect their solidarity with us in this struggle.
Jim White and Tom Watt shared the perils of being "football dads"; Caroline Gall revealed the inside workings of Leeds' crews and Brian Reade presented views as a journalist and a fan.
The era of the Great Depression and World War II was another -- a decade-and-a-half-long ordeal when widely shared penury and peril combined to nurture a feeling of common cause and to inspire a truly healthy sense of patriotic feeling.
Quite a few former leftists, in Europe as well as the US, have joined the neo- and not so neo-conservatives in the belief that we are engaged in a war of civilizations, that September 11 , 2001 is comparable to 1939, that "Islamofascism" is the Nazi threat of our time, and that our shared hour of peril will sort out the heroes from the cowards, the resisters.
"When I'm in a war," he says, "I'm sharing the perils and hardships of the people I'm photographing.
The closest parallel, these Kurds say, is Israel -- a country many Kurds strongly support, even though they are mostly Muslims, because of a sense of affinity with the Jews' long quest for a homeland and because of a shared sense of the peril posed by Mr. Hussein.
Oh, and then the foodie also shared stories about the perils of eating your way around the world with IBS.
Gathered in the lávvu, evenings pass with the Pittja men sharing tales of peril and romance, hope and fear in the candlelight.
Mr. Pollan has often said that we lose touch with the basic facts of food production at our own peril, and that shared meals hold families and communities together.
The "Rhodian Law" provided that losses incurred by a sea captain as a result of trying to save ship and cargo from peril must be shared proportionately by all owners of cargo and by the shipowner.
