The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really … - Daniel Fried

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Daniel Fried

The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.

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