In a Thursday Op-Ed piece published in the New York Times, Roger Cohen revisits the problems associated with American Exceptionalism:
American exceptionalism, taken to extremes, leaves you without the allies you need (Iraq), without the influence you want (Iran) and without any notion of risk (Wall Street). The only exceptionalism that resonates, as Obama put it to me last year, is one ‘based on our Constitution, our principles, our values and our ideals.’
Read the full editorial here.