Moreover, America has an important strategic interest in preventing Qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him.
The United States, which has strategic interest in Georgia, says it supports Georgia's territorial integrity.
Some 30, 000 cartridges were supplied by Russia, another country that has strategic interest in supporting the Chavez regime.
Mr Cameron overturned past Conservative rhetoric to insist he had a selfish and strategic interest in Northern Ireland.
Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct.
Mr Behrman agrees that the Marshall Plan was certainly in America's strategic interest.
We don't have a great deal of leverage in Zimbabwe, and we don't really have a major strategic interest in Zimbabwe.
Mr Ashdown believes this is still in the Lib Dems' strategic interest.
Now we have to develop our capacity and partner with USAID to leverage the talent of our Diaspora to strengthen America's strategic interest.
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Such caution is understandable: America has no strategic interest in Liberia.
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And again, this is in the Church's own strategic interest since it wishes to preserve and ensure free access to Christian and Jewish holy sites there.
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There are other parts of Yahoo that are likely of strategic interest to Microsoft, but there are likely smarter ways to work together than buying the company.
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It is in Egypt's own, and everybody else's strategic interest.
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They are backing the most radical actors in the region - and arguably in the world - against states and regimes they have a shared strategic interest in strengthening.
Libya's oil reserves are the largest in Africa, as big as America's own reserves, and the Bush administration has declared a strategic interest in diversifying America's oil sources away from the Gulf.
The Bush Administrations needs to be reminded that our fundamental strategic interest here is clear: Avoid an unnecessary war with a revanchist Russia, on terms that don't appear to reward Russian aggression.
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But the Western Pacific is a strategic interest of both great powers, and as World War I, nations can have close economic links and still fight a war to the death against each other.
Forgive the obviousness of this question but, what if actors who are interested in affecting our stock market and economy more generally are motivated, not by making money, but by some larger strategic interest?
What constitutes our strategic interest is debatable.
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Which is in the most important, strategic interest of the United States: having jobs for people and growing the economy or waging at least two or three major military efforts, causing a major diversion of resources and mindshare?
Quite apart from a sense of moral and religious affinity for the Jewish people's struggle to survive in their ancient homeland, most of us recognize that it is in the United States' strategic interest to stand with Israel.
But others, notably the then-defence secretary, Robert Gates, saw no vital American strategic interest at stake and were determined to provide only just enough help to ensure that the slender arsenals of the European allies did not doom the mission.
In 1990 the then Conservative Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Brooke helped launch the peace process by insisting the British government had "no selfish strategic interest" in remaining in Northern Ireland if the people opted for Irish unity.
But they do have a direct strategic interest in keeping the next election as tight as possible (leaving aside the baleful effect of the boundary changes on a number of their MPs) because it maximises their chance of a hung parliament in 2015 and leverage over the next government.
But don't tell me it's a vital national strategic American interest... and then not do anything.
Sure, I mean what is the strategic national interest for the United Kingdom in the European Union?
And it is also a strategic European interest, and it is a necessary requirement for global security and stability.
We underscored the need for the EAS to address political, economic and strategic issues of common interest and concern, such as nonproliferation and disarmament, maritime security cooperation, food and energy security, and ASEAN Connectivity.
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