Reflections on America From Abroad

By Jonathan Kirsch

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelve_twelve/article/reflections_on_america_from_abroad_20100121/

“American exceptionalism,” the notion that the United States is unique among the nations of the world, dates back to de Tocqueville, but it has become one of the besetting problems of American foreign policy. We tell ourselves that we are uniquely good, a shining city on a hill, and we are baffled when our friends and enemies alike fail to see us as the cowboys in the white hats.

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