Reply #65: Yes, where exactly do you want me to start? What year? [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

Understanding where the speech comes from and what intellectual theory informs it, does not mean I believe in American Exceptionalism.

So exactly where do you want me to start?

The Indian Wars? Perhaps the Gun Boat Policy? Perchance you'd like to start in 1848? Or slavery? How about more recent events like oh Central America?

Or perhaps go down to oh Guatemala in 1953, or Iran about the same year? Chile perhaps? Argentina? What about Brazil?

The list is long and is fully functional of this little thing people do not get.. An Empire will do what an Empire needs to do... and this Empire came to be fully formed in 1945...

Understanding a speech does not mean one is blind to other aspects of history... I guess one has to.

And are you telling me that there is no evil in the world? And are you familiar wiht Reinhold Nieburh? Martin Luther King and the Just War Doctrine?