Turkey's secular, capitalistic, democratic order has become especially valuable to the Bush administration as it seeks to integrate the wider Middle East into the world system by liberalizing its economy and democratizing its polity. Thus, America trumpeted its continuing support for Turkish membership in the EU, notably in President Bush's speech in June at Istanbul's Galatasaray University - at a bridge that joins Asia and Europe.
美国也同样有着修复关系的愿望。在布什政府试图把中东广大地区纳入其全球体系，在那里实现经济自由化和政治民主化的过程中，土耳其的世俗、资本和民主秩序在美国政府看来都显得弥足珍贵。于是，布什总统6月在伊斯坦布尔加拉塔萨雷大学的讲话中再次重申了支持土耳其加入欧盟的立场，布什这次讲话的地点被安排在一座连接亚欧大陆的桥上。