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HotAirhttps://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/10/28/the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 23:33:25 -0400The myth of American exceptionalism<![CDATA[But even more galling was Obama’s Fort Bragg address to troops returning from Iraq. He commended their willingness to sacrifice “so much for a people that you had never met,” which, he insisted, was “part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources. We do it because it’s right … a unique willingness among nations to pay a great price for the progress of human freedom and dignity. This is who we are. That’s what we do as Americans.” Towards the end Alan Greenspan, the long-serving chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, thought such statements absurd. “I am saddened,” he wrote, “that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”]]>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:40:26 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/10/28/the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism-n107377