For more than 40 years, Disneyland has been at the heart of public expressions of American desire.

There also may have been an American desire to annex Canada.

Europeans, with peacekeepers on the ground, had a point when they repeatedly complained of the American desire "to fight to the last European."

Obama will carry with him into the White House the periodically recurring American desire to be better.

It caters to the underlying American desire for a fix.

The author shows us how quickly the American desire to win converted the diamond into a workplace and the players into employees.

"Obviously the firing of the generals and colonels is well recognized as not being compatible with American desires."

But by today, Iraqi officials and news media were hailing it as an international effort to thwart the American desire for war.

It is a dangerous situation, whether it results from the American desire to take action or because nobody else is prepared to perform that function.

It is about a peculiarly American desire to consume natural resources with conspicuous abandon.