After the storming of the Capitol, a distinctly Washington worldview whirred into focus, one that overstates America’s moral influence in the world and underestimates the depth of dysfunction already inherent in the American system.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/07/american-exceptionalism-end-capitol-mob/ …
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For many abroad, that vision of the “shining city on the hill” has already died a thousand deaths. For some, it was always an illusion to obscure the Washington-engineered coups and client military regimes that defined their national politics for decades.http://washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/07/american-exceptionalism-end-capitol-mob/ …
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For others, what faith they had in the American example was zapped in the torture wards of Abu Ghraib and the mammoth, multi-trillion-dollar excess of the U.S.'s last two decades of ruinous wars.http://washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/07/american-exceptionalism-end-capitol-mob/ …
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Everybody's saying America is better than this but I think maybe if America was better than this, America would be better than this.
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Only in the US "American exceptionalism" is not a mocking term.
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Headline alone could give heart attacks to so many
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OH, I HOPE SO!
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