America’s special mission transcends day-to-day diplomacy and obliges it to serve as a beacon of liberty for the rest of mankind. • The foreign policies of democracies are morally superior because the people are inherently peace-loving. • Foreign policy should reflect the same moral standards as personal ethics. • The state has no right to claim a separate morality for itself. Wilson endowed these assertions of American moral exceptionalism with a universal dimension: Dread of the power of any other nation we are incapable of. We are not jealous of rivalry in the fields of commerce or of any
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