Senators have shown emotion and concern when speaking about certain aspects of the rhetoric associated with US foreign policy. Particular concern has been shown in relation to the direction in which such policy seems to be in danger of going. Such comments are made, as Senator Ó Murchú has said, because we are profoundly pro-American and not because we are anti-American. This country has deep bonds of respect for the values of American democracy. As Europeans, we are grateful for the way in which the United States rescued European democracy twice in the last century.