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15342 Re: putin takes on us exceptionalism
   We didn't keep Iraq, there's the huge difference.
clo   ALEA   27 Mar 2014
5:53 PM
15341 Re: putin takes on us exceptionalism
   "russia takes crimea, us took iraq." or from a pink floyd song......
faul   ALEA   27 Mar 2014
3:02 PM

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putin takes on us exceptionalism

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Thu, 27 Mar 14 1:29 PM
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russia takes crimea, us took iraq.

putin says, why is the us different?

it's an awkward question.

is the answer "exceptionalism"?

i think that's what putin thinks it is.

but it is hard to argue exceptionalism if you have lost your moral authority.

maybe out of the events in crimea comes a process which defines how and when intervention in a country's internal affairs is allowable.

different rules for different countries is not a good model.

iraq still echoes.