The world is not us and never will be

“If we learn anything from Afghanistan, from Iraq, and from September 11, let it be this.

“There have to be boundaries, physical and conceptual borders, between us and the rest of the world. American exceptionalism can’t be a narcissistic belief that everyone ought to be like us. If everyone could become us, there would be nothing exceptional about us. Our exceptionalism is that the rest of the world isn’t like us and never will be. And that if we want to protect ourselves, we have to stop trying to define the world or allowing the rest of the world to redefine America. 

“Americans have spent the last century trying to turn the world into America. Let’s spend this century making America what it was always intended to be: a refuge from the rest of the world.”

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2021/08/afghanistan-didnt-fall-it-never-existed.htm

Link at Maggie’s Farm.