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No, it's not the American way For governance, Bush has the task of leading a country that believes in American exceptionalism in a world in which that idea is, for many, off-putting if not repugnant. This is why Bush has taken pains to explain that the "nonnegotiable demands of human dignity" are not just American but universal, the gift of God or, if you will, imperatives imposed by secular ideas of liberty and equality. More...
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