In northern Iraq, the worst allied-fire disaster of the war occurred when an American Special Forces officer traveling with a convoy of Kurdish leaders and fighters mistakenly called down an airstrike on the column.
And one begins to wonder if, in Valls's rigor, in his inflexibility, and in his demeanor of a commander shaming halfwits who think they can outsmart the worst sort of allies or accommodate the worst they have in them,one cannot find the real reason behind the disgrace into which he seems to have fallen (or been pushed).
If a future disruption were as bad as history's worst, American and allied governments' crude oil stocks alone could replace every lost barrel for eight months.
"The dictator was left to do his worst, along with his allies, Russia and Iran, and the bloodiest tragedy of the 21st century has since unfolded".
Though I found Larry to be a strong Keynesian ally during the worst of the great recession, and no friend of thebanks during our work on Dodd-Frank, that's not the way key members of the committee saw it, recalling his role in the financial market deregulation of the 1990s, changes that contributed to the mess we're still digging out of.
I'm afraid we've lost that small comfort and now stand alone as the world's worst betrayers of friends and allies.
His collaboration with allies on the worst of London's large "regeneration" schemes reveals the Tory ideology at work at national as well as London government levels.
More often, however, he positions Stalin as a victim of British and American mistrust and double-dealing, a brutal tyrant forced to be his worst self because his Western allies didn't do right by him.
Trump didn't dwell on the E.U., but he seemed to be referring to European countries when he said, "Many of the countries who treat us worst on trade are our allies".
Trump was, as always, the worst offender: he and his allies had already mentally locked Clinton up, and are treating this development as a jailbreak — another rig in the rigged system.
