Jerry Nockles' excellent post on American exceptionalism gives an insight into the way the US perceives its role in the world. And in his selection of quotes from contemporary US politicians, the degree to which they pay homage to this concept shows that it remains a real issue.
The inevitable problem with this way of thinking is that it makes little if any allowance for others who believe in their own exceptionalism. The world is not full of such states, but nor is America alone in believing that it has been endowed with what the nineteenth century American newspaper editor John O'Sullivan referred to as a 'manifest destiny'.
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