When it comes to some of the differences in values, we need to speak with clarity to our American friends. I have a great grá for that wonderful republic; I have a bust of Thomas Jefferson, among others, in my office in Brussels and I have taken enormous political insight from Madison and others who wrote so beautifully and elegantly about the values of the Enlightenment which inspired the constitutional traditions in the US. Then I look at the abomination of Guantanamo Bay, which diminishes that great republic and traduces its very soul. We must tell that in honesty to our friends when we engage in dialogue with them. On that broad point, because I do not have the time to develop a longer answer, we must tell our American friends that they freely have our alliance but they have no automatic entitlement to our allegiance. Between those two concepts of alliance and allegiance, we have the dignity to be ourselves and carry to the table of bilateralism a sense of who we are and what we believe in.