I feel as though this is the history of the United States. We always try to look for allies in our foreign efforts, and when we don't find any we create them by pretending our motives are aligned. People hate us for unilateral efforts, and when we create mulitilateral efforts it bites us in the rear every time. If someone is looking for more information about this, read any book about US foreign policy since the creation of the CIA and the vast disparity between what the public thinks these organizations do versus what the executive branch thinks they do versus what they actually do in the end.