The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once remarked that the United States was “morally superior to Europe.” No longer. America lost its city-on-the-hill idealism, its moral edge, long ago. From the beginning, America was more than a place. It represented the values and ideals of a humane civilisation. Two hundred years ago, America caught the imagination of the world because of the ideals which it stood for. Today its example is tarnished with military adventurism and conflicts abroad. In the past, some envied America, some liked America, some hated America, but almost all respected her. And all knew that without the United States peace and freedom would not have survived
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