American Literature
That narrative still drives Americans' understanding of
national identity. We still believe we are a nation of white Protestants, despite massive evidence to the contrary, and our politicians have to avow
their Christianity to be creditable. Our leaders invoke divine guidance when they dispatch troops, and we quarrel endlessly over the contents of
American history texts. Moreover the rest of the world continues to fling our values back at us: in 2006 Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad
asked President Bush how it was possible to bomb Afghanistan and still profess "to be a follower of Jesus Christ...feel obliged to respect human
rights, [and] present liberalism as a civilization model." Twain called the PhilippineAmerican War "a quagmire from which each fresh step renders
the difficulty of extrication immensely greater," adding, "I wish I could see what we are getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation." We've
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