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this is. going to be. an exceptional american exceptionalism testimony to american exceptionalism american exceptionalism the united states is indeed exceptional america is exceptional what makes us earth is accept.

somebody disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest but for the interests of all. i agree america is exceptional but what's exceptional about my country is that. we did exceptionally bad things we do it well. we do it often. we do it and no one else can. taking action and doing things without accountability that other nations cannot get away with. this standard of international norms when we ourselves do not adhere to that same standards it's something many of us take pride in you self-appointed right to dominate destroy. and take control. only that's not what

it's called here it's called american accent. and it's been around for a long time to be original meaning of it of course comes from the u.s. communist party which in one thousand twenty seven was telling stalin that they were having trouble trying to get american workers to make revolution against capitalism because of american exceptionalism nope. even further back to the beginning the true american exceptionalism i think was during the founding generations when they wanted a limited government that didn't interfere in other people's business so the phrase has been completely turned around. so what exactly is american exceptionalism today well remember this yes we can yes we could just want to live. that's it yes we can do whatever we want

you should do what we want. and if you don't. we'll make you. president after president this idea of exceptionalism dominated the white house well the now white fighting in the name of the war on terror a strong republican line with democrats like clinton and obama it's our duty as americans to help pay for a grant humanitarian crisis here of course military intervention. how else do you get what you want. this is why the middle east was so they could steal the oil to stop military pieces to be used. in terms of profit for the sea destruction of think it gives us something to rebuild improve or fix even if it isn't broken.

the term. and exceptionalism is really nothing more or less since world war two than a code word or euphemism for the military lobby and powerful faction in the east coast establishment to justify wars and coup d'etat is around the world using the name of god democracy free enterprise the american way of life to justify that that america is some kind of city on the hill for decades our government has found a reason to go to war. we call it spreading democracy. the idea that the united states is somehow above and beyond other countries that it is if you will i suppose many would argue or deigned by god to carry out some sort of an ideal. that's right it was our god given right to invade vietnam and iraq.

bombed belgrade. destroyed gadhafi. and now we have to help the syrians even if it means helping al qaeda the president's told us and have been telling us for years let us be proud of the two and a half million young americans who served in vietnam who served with honor and distinction and one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations the american people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action. and into the hands of america god has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity america has a responsibility to stand with our allies when they are trying to save innocent and preserve peace freedom and stability in europe. that is what we are doing in kosovo the qualities of courage and compassion that we strive for in america also

determine our conduct abroad. the american flag stands for more than our power and our interests. ultimately this is not about who occupies this office at any given time it's about who we are as a country. we as a country invaded iraq in two thousand and three we were looking for weapons of mass

destruction that didn't even exist the little white lights of the u.n. never heard anyone. my fellow citizens at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. on my worse coalition forces and begin striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. our president was looking to get rid of evil saddam so iraqis could enjoy the kind of democracy we enjoy in america oh by the way speaking of democracy that president wasn't really elected president another guy actually won the election but this guy became.

as all empires to kind of savage brutality. that is. covered by this language of being exceptional and of being because we are exceptional of being and had the right to walk into other people's countries and demand that they conform according to some estimates over a million iraqi civilians died in ten years of war we are still fighting in afghanistan and have spent over a trillion dollars on both since two thousand and one we pay our levon million dollars a day in taxes to support our government's wars after world war two america had built up power of war machine but had nothing to do with it and so the wars began

korea vietnam iraq the list goes on today the us defense budget is more than the next ten largest defense budgets in the world put together why put all that away. we have the budget we have the bombs it only makes sense to get the booty. in the twenty first century you can't simply tell the people that you're going to go in occupy another place in order to steal their oil or in order to take their gold or whatever you have to find a pretext and what we in the united states one of the most effective ways to do that is to convince the population that what is being done is moral it is ethical it is righteous and it is just.

i have a responsibility as president the you with problems such as this before they do permanent harm to our national interests. in one thousand nine hundred nine we decided it was. a hit cities journalist bridges even ones that had small children playing on them. small villages passenger trains and embassies became collateral damage all to bring down one man because he wasn't doing what we wanted once in the hague i went to talk with most of it he had trouble understanding really why the united states was so hostile to serbia and he said to me well you know we represented too much of a socialist ideal and there's some truth to that i think but he was

a convenient target. some of our targets were previously our friends we took out one market offer for little or no reason in libya as well that's a recent example it started out that we were just providing this air cover to prevent gadhafi threat against his own people that he had made but of course then it became let's take out kadafi so we take out leaders.

in the. libya was another humanitarian projects you know a fight for democracy human rights like iraq stand in the shoes of an iraqi or a palestinian and you realize how empty this rhetoric of exceptionalism is and human rights we were tacitly supporting saddam hussein when he was gassing kurds and a lot. over one hundred forty thousand people killed when we provided satellite imagery so he could drop poison gas on iranian troops not to mention the depleted uranium that we've left all over the place. coupled with agent orange which we sprayed all over of the. and then you know i mean let's go all the way back to world war two

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another exception we are the only country to ever use nuclear weapons on another country twice. the most prominent examples of american exceptionalism i can think of is the rhetoric of weapons of mass destruction around the world using not as a precursor to actually invade other nations when the us historically has been the

greatest aggressor and user of chemical and nuclear weapons. bill to work very hard to make sure the rest of the world doesn't have them. especially in the middle east while for one very close friend we've made an exception they are allowed but don't have to tell anyone. in syria we demand the government give up its chemical weapons and don't want to hear about possible rebel use of deadly toxic or fair. and this exceptionalism is all based upon picking and choosing what is in our national interest at the time when it's an i would say it's not a it's not a a major clarion. policy that we maintain across the board toward everybody me and. you know we make exceptions for our friends and our interests.

i thought following egypt back in the hands of the military and a softer iran all in our interest but it usually sounds more like this from the president. i believe that the people's representatives must be invested in what america does abroad. and now is the time to show the world that america keeps our commitments we do what we say and we lead with the belief that right makes might. the other way around. take world war two number one take the first world war even and go all the way up to the history of almost continuous regional wars that the u.s. has played a medal in hand in since the beginning of the cold war so right up until the present with syria and that that is all justified internally under the name of american exceptionalism.

human rights in bahrain and qatar drone killing civilians in yemen and women in saudi arabia i'm not exceptionalism they're simply exceptions. saudi arabia has nothing in common with the mock recy has nothing in common with human rights has nothing in common with equal rights especially for women they still

can't drive and then when you hear about this latest case of a woman who was gang raped and then given two hundred lashes even though she was the victim there's something. fundamentally sick about that and us and this administration the obama administration hasn't said one word we cannot and must not and we will not obama is busy we don't have health care for everyone we have a national poverty rate of fifteen percent and we have more of our population in prison than the rest of the worlds. the u.s. is an exceptional country but not in the way that most people think about it the us is exceptionally dysfunctional and if we compare the united states with advanced democracies around the world the u.s. is in a category all by itself nothing really works here. you

know. the u.s. government is set up into branches to ensure no one body too much power one of them is congress but most of the time the two main parties are bickering blocking each other and sometimes shutting down the government altogether in fact the last time the us government came together in an official declaration of war was world war two and back then we were fighting another exceptionally. worse. terrorist for the. weeks past the enemy people being destroyed the german constitution when it came to white people to lose them and support this program to the old team that's the seal beach the homeland

security so well at home there is much work to do abroad there is even more. political dysfunction helps to explain the ease with which we go abroad to mess around with other people's lives it's much easier for the political establishment in washington to say ok let's go. bomb serbia let's go invade iraq. but most americans don't exactly see it that way. american politics and american foreign policy is that we're americans we can do whatever we want we're not subject to any international law or international rules that apply to other countries.

we can spy on other countries governments and even allies but most of all our own people americans. an exceptional man named edward snowden told the world this but not too many countries and most americans don't seem to mind. the american population is you know the government is very effective at propaganda so. you know president obama called for this independent review of n.s.a. activities. but the director of the board that's doing this independent investigation is james clapper the defense national intelligence. the five people on this board all have relationships with obama. so americans are ok

with being exceptional at least most of them when you go through public school when you when you go through universities you're taught certain perspectives about the united states that somehow set it apart from the rest of the world not that the united states is simply one nation among many nations on the planet but that the united states is somehow better. we all pledged allegiance to the flag in school every child every day. gratefully too much to. me i didn't think them. into me pulling the religion steams through those. but everyone listening. revealing exceptional just like you made the united states exceptional. i can't answer that i work for the government told the police they. are big business. are you feeling exceptional today.

they are not i believe that the thing i think i think that the united states should be most loved there with a bit of a country because that's where the money come from one of the big blue for the. diversity. respecting of minority rights a freedom freedom freedom and earthly freedom one would exceptional stand out from other countries. the i would say part of the problem solving and building a fire brigade every man and trying to work together to do so and jane and i were a boy hiring a what do you think makes the united states exceptional stand out from other countries. second place for business. executives to stand out is when our parents just then restrike three years there and then we begin to get out of bed where

three were independent. of the thing for ourselves freedom. are you feeling exceptional today now you know you feeling exceptional today. what do you think makes the us exceptional nothing. some americans do not think were exception not a question. more it would. mean children of the empire and i think when you have the establishment being so arrogant and blind to what these policies do to the rest of the world you have the entire populace being bred into this exceptional mindset where we're just completely ignorant of what our policies do and we're completely removed and attached to them which is extremely dangerous american exceptionalism has been at the center of our nation's experience for nearly four hundred years what makes america unique politically culturally in science and industry what is

the source of our country. and has many of us forgotten why america is an exceptional nation and that. it's no different to the british the french. this is us exceptionalism we. still don't know why. those of us who know we are not exceptional we are the exception.

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