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Or as Elwood Blues put it, “We’re on a mission from God.”

Professor Andrew Bacevich put it this way, however, “to view international politics through this lens of good and evil leads you to vastly oversimplify and I think also leads you to make reckless decisions.”  It may be added that reckless decisions lead to reckless actions from which we will not find absolution in worldly or other-worldly courts by simply ‘sticking to our guns’ and muttering the mantra of American Exceptionalism.

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Excellent and timely. by JC Garrett on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:49:54 AM
ICC by DC Rapier on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:37:12 AM
ICC lacks jurisdiction over Bush and Cheney by Brett Paatsch on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:51:56 PM
ICC jurisdiction by DC Rapier on Friday, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:06:28 AM
Exceptional? by Archie on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:23:25 PM
Manifest Destinied Out by John Little on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:26:19 PM
I wouldn't say that the US gets everything wrong by Stanimal on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:30:13 PM
Exceptionalism by DC Rapier on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:01:02 PM
American Exceptionalism vs Canute realism by kwalsh on Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:20:34 PM
A most pernicious concept............. by R. A. Landbeck on Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:51:09 AM

 
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