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An obvious point, yes - Fukuyama makes it too -  but one which still doesn't seem to have sunk in among some people... From Samantha Powers' NY Review of Books essay on foreign policy and the Democrats:

Because many conservatives presume exceptional American virtue —and believe that this virtue is self-evident to others—they have also consistently failed to see how aggressive US actions can appear abroad, and how the fear they generate can give rise to threatening behaviour by others, who believe they are acting in self-defence.

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