[ExI] What is Grace?

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 00:29:26 UTC 2009


2009/3/10 Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
> At 09:41 PM 3/9/2009 +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:
>
>> while the Third Reich never had any nuclear
>> weapon (but they did have chemical weapons that they never used...)
>
> They did have V1 and V2 rocket missiles that they hammered England with.
> Hard to believe they wouldn't have used nukes if they'd had some.
>
>> How important, one wonders, is it for US nationalism and imperialism
>> to feel being "on the side of the angels"?
>
> Pretty much as important as for every nation, I imagine.

The US may be exceptionally prone to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

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