Meet American Exceptionalism

[uscitizen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7NQBN-lO0

It moved me to a big lump in my throat and to tears.

sucker!

You are following your programming.

 

[sangha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7NQBN-lO0

It moved me to a big lump in my throat and to tears.

sucker!

You are following your programming.

Lump in his throat? Tears?

I think I know what he's been sucking

 

[uscitizen]

Aww don't pick on him he can't help it, some are just more succeptable to programming than others.

 

[Mr Natural]

"American Exceptionalism" sounds a lot like that "Master Race" crap that Hitler was selling back in the '30s.

 

[Revere]

All peace is kept through force.

Thank god our military prevented the imminent attack on the US by Iraq

Not all force results in peace.

 

[sangha]

Thank god our military prevented the imminent attack on the US by Iraq

 

[JBeukema]

Good stuff. There is no peace without the sacrifices of Americans willing to use force to keep it.

How is invading half the known world 'keeping the peace'?

 

[American Horse]

It moved me to a big lump in my throat and to tears.

sucker!

You are following your programming.

Lump in his throat? Tears?

I think I know what he's been sucking

You don't have a clue you cold excuse for a ....

 

[sangha]

Good stuff. There is no peace without the sacrifices of Americans willing to use force to keep it.

How is invading half the known world 'keeping the peace'?

In wingnut world "peace" = "oil"

Our military kept the "peace". There is no "peace" w/o the death of Americans

 

[sangha]

sucker!

You are following your programming.

Lump in his throat? Tears?

I think I know what he's been sucking

You don't have a clue you cold excuse for a ....

What's the matter? You got a lump in your throat?

 

[daveman]

 

[sangha]

Now here's some REAL American Exceptionalism

 

[Revere]

It was great to finally defeat Japan, speaking of someone else who attacked us.

 

[daveman]

It was great to finally defeat Japan, speaking of someone else who attacked us.

And to do it in a manner that saved many lives. The America-haters will refuse to acknowledge that, though.

 

[Mobius]

Let's not get all touchy feely about warfare here. I don't think it's prudent to assume that Allied strategic planners were concerning about saving Japanese lives as much as they were involved in the dispassionate moral calculus that characterizes modern warfare. They certainly had no moral qualms about carpeting bombing cities to inhibit Axis industrial production and destroy enemy infrastructure.

It was great to finally defeat Japan, speaking of someone else who attacked us.

Yeah, although to be honest it wasn't exactly without provocation. So it goes, I guess.

 

[Revere]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwtl-QD9BkA[/ame]

 

[Douger]

Xepshinnal, mudda fucka.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWulZOKANB4[/ame]

 

[Epsilon Delta]

It would be 'exceptional' if those kids were still alive, instead of having died uselessly in a faraway place to fight a war of aggression under fake pretenses to further their masters' power.

But hey, you'll be free when you die. Hooray for Freedom!

 

[uscitizen]

American exceptionalism:

 

[JBeukema]

Americans like to think the United States is different (i.e., "better") than other countries. The idea that the United States is "exceptional," a "shining city on a hill," or destined by Providence to play a special role in world history, is a popular theme among politicians and widely embraced by ordinary U.S. citizens. As Karen Tumulty pointed out in an interesting Washington Post piece last week, the idea of "American exceptionalism" has also become yet another stick that conservatives are using to beat up President Obama, because he supposedly doesn't think we're all that unique. (In fact, like most politicians, Obama has praised America's "exceptional" qualities throughout his career).
Every country has certain unique features and interests, of course, but the idea that any state is truly "exceptional" is sharply at odds with a realist view of international politics. Realism depicts international politics as an anarchic realm, where no agency or institution exists to protect states from each other. As a result, states must ultimately rely on their own resources and strategies to survive. It is, in other words, a "self-help" world, and this situation forces all states -- and especially the major powers -- to compete with each other, sometimes ruthlessly. Although realists acknowledge that domestic politics sometimes matters and that there are important differences between different great powers (and different leaders), the most important difference between states is their relative power.

Is America Really That Different? | Stephen M. Walt