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The last time I checked, wars only destroy.

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That sounds awesome…it’s a topic that deserves far more than 5-10 minutes. You’ve broken it down well, I think.

What sort of job are you interviewing for – a teaching position?

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Kevin, you’re definitely right – Romney is by far not the only proponent of American Exceptionalism – I just singled him out because his quote puts the idea into a nutshell quite nicely.

Question for everyone, really: Do the majority of Americans seem to fall behind exceptionalism/nationalism in whole or in part, or is it just that the ones that do make the most noise about it?

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I’m not an expert like Dr. J, but from what I remember, there were no human/child sacrifices under the Mosaic law. The Israelites did ften offer their firstborn as sacrifices, though, in Old Testament times, in worship to Baal/Molech. From what I’ve been told, Baal was a fertility God, and the sacrifice of the firstborn was to supposedly ensure future kids.

That was one of the reasons, I was told, that the prophets of the Old Testament (Elijah, etc.) hated Baal worship so much.

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I think the following Romney quote defines in greater detail the idea of American Exceptionalism:

“This century must be an American century … In an American century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world.”

The idea itself posits (to boil it down to the basics) that America is exceptional – exceptional in the sense of “best, greatest, above everyone else”, etc. It’s rooted in nationalism and draped in the flag. Proponents of American Exceptionalism are often seen trying to impose The American Way on others (WW1 Wilsonianism through to forcing “Democracy” on Iraq) for their own good, because if it’s not American, it’s not right.

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Hi Pursuit,

We have all the audio and video served from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for fast buffering and download speeds from a server located near where each user lives. Even so, the servers have been in high demand since the launch of the site, so it’s likely that speeds will improve as things normalize.

Give it a few days and we’ll see if it persists. Others seem to be downloading at sufficiently fast speeds for now.

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This has been fixed — thanks for alerting us to the problem!

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