War is nothing new to Americans, and it is deeply rooted into her culture. In recent times, with the development of advanced technology, the American civilians have come to understand the truth about their government’s involvement in war, and the lie that's been lead on for far too long. To use as an example, take the strife in the Middle East, decades spent fighting the anti-American ideal and terrorism. The war has cost countless lives, both civilian and military, and finds its root in the fact that the terrorist organizations hate Western freedom and democracy, or does it? This paper outlines American exceptionalism as applied to the middle eastern conflicts, and how the problem originated, why it continues, and why these terrorist organizations do what they do. To begin the …show more content…
That when the Americans fire countless missiles and bombs into civilian populations, and are not held accountable to their misuse of power. To the Arabs, we are doing more harm than good. In conclusion, America cannot project her values, ethics and morals on another population, when they don’t desire it. When this isn’t America’s true purpose, and the truth was a war for economic dominance. America is unjust to force civilians to cooperate with her, when all they wanted was true freedom and nationalism, not Americanism. So before saying a war is just because we are educating them and giving them our system of values and culture, understand what they want, not what we think is right and with our economy’s wallet. America has no values that they can impose on foreign nations, because we are not them: we do not understand them, nor have their same societal and cultural values. American exceptionalism works in America, but imposing it on others is defying the inherent definition of American