EXCEPTIONALISM: THE ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL MYTH UNDERLYING THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION

Michael Ignatieff, ed. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights. 2005. This myth has produced three deeply crippling national behaviors:

1) US exempts itself from provisions of international law conventions and treaties by reservation, nonratification, or noncompliance;

2) double standards US judges itself and its friends by more permissive criteria than it does its enemies;

3) legal isolation: US courts disregard international rulings and standards, e.g. European Court of Human Rights.



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