The US has always been based on utopian universalism, transcending cultures and civilizations as well as nation states including the US itself.
In this sense, it has had, at best, an ambiguous relationship to Western Civ. Huntington's discussions makes this apparent.
This has had, and will continue to have, tragic consequences.
In effect, we became the first Pariah State of Modern Western Civ. Revolutionary France became the second.
We have continued to play that role, and I see no indication that that will change.
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