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The years since WW2 are a third of all of America's history. Considering America still maintains military bases across the world, surely one cannot call it an e
by scarejunba 7y ago
The years since WW2 are a third of all of America's history. Considering America still maintains military bases across the world, surely one cannot call it an exception when it's for that period of time. Either there is a coherent American sentiment over centuries and the one expressed over these last 75 years isn't exceptional or there is no coherent sentiment.
- SllX 7y agoAmerica’s history goes back to before the founding of the country and is filled with people fleeing the dysfunction of European politics around the time of the Enlightenment, literally seeking to at least insulate themselves with the Atlantic Ocean. How well they succeeded is a different question, but the will to do so has always been a strong force in domestic politics and is expressing itself again through the present Presidential Administration.