SocraticGadfly: Bacevich: Get beyond ‘American exceptionalism’

May 07, 2009

Bacevich: Get beyond ‘American exceptionalism’

At The Nation, Andrew Bacevich says that, until we get past American exceptionalism, our foreign policy will largely be more of the same, no matter which half of the two-party duopoly is in the saddle.

That would starts, he said, by junking the mythic patina of American exceptionalism that’s accumulated in the telling of the noble American non-imperial empire for the last 60 years.

Read the whole essay.

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