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October 29, 2022

What America Owes the World

The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy

H.W. Brands

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-For two hundred years, Americans have believed that they have an obligation to improve the lot of humanity. This belief has consistently shaped U.S. foreign policy. Yet within this consensus, two schools of thought have contended: the "exemplarist" school (Brande's term), which holds that what America chiefly owes the world is the benign example of a well-functioning democracy, and the "vindicationist" school, which asserts that force must sometimes supplement a good example. In this book, H.W. Brands traces the evolution of these two schools as they emerged in the arguments of the most important public thinkers of the last two centuries. This book is both an intellectual and moral history of U.S. foreign policy and a guide to the fundamental question of America's relations with the rest of the world- a question more pressing than ever in the confusion that has succeeded the Cold War: What does America owe the world?

H.W. Brands, the Ralph R. Thomas Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Portland State University. and the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include

The Specter of Neutralism, Inside the Cold War. The Unisted States in the World, The Wages of Globalism, The Reckless Decade, and T.R.: The Last Romantic

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nihilism- The idea that a person can be more than one thing at one time

What America Owes the World-

Tomatoes and clean air as far as I can see. Abundance and vision provide me with a latitude of understanding that the progressive change in America is towards a democracy that includes political forces that are crushing. There can be no truth to the idea of a foreign government if America has all the resources and never properly disposes of the waste of war. When has America not been at war? A better question might be when has America been at war? Some argue that we are traditionalists but when we incorporate new traditions that are inclusive, we are new traditionalists and the old ideas of the older traditionalists must be disposed of respectfully or else we create a new class of people that maybe Ghandi would talk to and wish good luck. Am I opposed to gambling? Yes but I can only be opposed to gambling when I understand the ramifications to the Bengalese dollar which fluctuates with a market and a population that i can never feed. The debt I have created is unAmerican, isolated, and unrelated to any American body of people. I was on Indian land and I was expelled to the end of the road. I didn't see anything that belonged to America not even the air. I must migrate to cash that Allah will provide.

There is no indication that I was ever commited to the American dollar. I never experienced happiness from it. The American dollar is a bypass surgery away from being kicked to Pluto where it belongs. I owe Saturn. There are seven rings and two moons I haven't paid for. What ever was I going to buy with federal funds? Federal lands? I guess so. The wise possibly purchased national forests. Can I purchase a slot machine? Or maybe I should build a slot machine.