Conservatives point to this dispute as a sign that Bush would be an unreliable ally in the White House.

His face is guarded, which is understandable as he is coming to the home of a most unreliable ally.

If confirmed, though, Gorsuch could prove to be an unreliable ally from Trump's point of view, at least on occasion.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called the situation "a disaster in the making" that showed the United States is an unreliable ally.

As it waged that war, it was placing far too much faith in unreliable allies.

But secrets are unreliable allies.

"An unreliable ally to Rome?" I asked this jokingly, but I was serious.