For this to work, our European allies must take over more responsibility.

Our European allies will provide the vast majority of them.

If our European allies don't like it, they must be pushed into line.

Are these issues so important that you're willing to go it alone if the European allies won't come on board?

Yet neither we nor our European allies are prepared to go to war.

Indeed, some of our European allies have agreed with it and others are not prepared to go that far yet.

It changed its strategy for dealing with the European allies.

It was clearly against the interest of our European allies.

America and its European allies need to consider stronger measures.

But whether the European allies would clearly support military action now looks more doubtful than it did a week ago.