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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May 07, 2009
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