An interesting video on the subject of apologia, moral relativism, and the lack of moral and national confidence in this administration and liberal cultural millieu

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The war against the Palestinians arises from the merging of the Zionist view of Jewish exceptionalism with the view in the United States of American exceptionalism, which have focused their common root ambitions for domination and possession as a hostility to Islam, and this is t …

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This is the Jack Goldsmith argument: while what Bush officials did may have been misguided and wrong, they did it out of a true fear of Islamic enemies, with the intent to protect us, perhaps even consistent with the citizenry's wishes.

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Global Pax Americana--Soft Imperialism--Niebuhr Ignorance?

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Conservative professor of history and international relations at Boston University and twenty-three year veteran of the US Army, Andrew Bacevich, speaks with Amy Goodman about his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. A quote from the interview:

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Wilson noted that one of the best ways to understand American exceptionalism is to look at polls. Three-quarters of Americans say they are proud to be Americans; only one-third of the people in France, Italy, Germany, and Japan give that response about their own countries.

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Granted, these days the United States of America has saddled itself with a big ol' government fat enough to set the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.

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