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The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries In Its Own Image And That, With A Few Exceptions, Its Efforts To Police The World Are Neither In Its Interests Nor Within The Scope Of Its Resources. This Whole Tendency To See Ourselves As The Center Of Political Enlightenment And As Teachers To A Great Part Of The Rest Of The World Strikes Me As Unthought-through, Vainglorious And Undesirable.
-George F. Kennan
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The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries

George F. Kennan
The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries In Its Own Image And That, With A Few Exceptions, Its Efforts To Police The World Are Neither In Its Interests Nor Within The Scope Of Its Resources. This Whole Tendency To See Ourselves As The Center Of Political Enlightenment And As Teachers To A Great Part Of The Rest Of The World Strikes Me As Unthought-through, Vainglorious And Undesirable.
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