bsmall2> ... no evidence for these propositions is given. None is needed, because they are considered true as a matter of definition. One might even take the position that in the special case of the United States, facts themselves are irrelevant. #HansMorgenthau, a founder of #RealistInternationalRelations theory, developed the standard view that the United States has a “transcendent purpose”:..
https://alkhanadeq.com/static/media/uploads/files/Noam Chomsky_ Nathan J. Robinson - The Myth of American Idealism _ How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World-Penguin Publishing Group (2024).pdf
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> .. a matter of definition, so the #ScienceOfGovernment teaches, it would be an error of logic to bring up the factual record. What may have happened in history is merely “the abuse of reality,”... “reality itself” is the unachieved “national purpose” revealed by “the evidence of history as our minds reflect it,” .. that the “transcendent purpose” of the United States is “the establishment of equality in freedom in America,” and indeed throughout the world...( #HansMorgenthau ).
https://chomsky.info/199401__02/
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