My experience with the United States precedes being prime minister, because I was army minister and defence minister during the unhappy Vietnam era.
It is quite simply that the United States does not respect people who meekly—or whatever way one wants to put it—accept or accede to U.S. wishes or requests. They respect much more a partner that has a point of view, that can argue for it with validity and with strength, and they're much more likely to listen to that partner and that partner will have much more influence.
I think we diminish influence over the United States by accepting the kind of exceptions that we did in Australia or the far greater exception that is before the Canadian Parliament in clause 11.
We're not serving our major ally well by going down this track.