Self-Contradictory Nationalism

From the beginning of this course, I felt my idea toward the war on terror is somehow different from others. That might due to my own international background. My personal view toward the United States has been combined with the freedom and the hegemony, the good and the bad of this country. Unlike most of you, I was never surprised by those materials we covered here. However, what does surprise me here is the way all of you respond to the topic, a self-contradictory nationalism exposed from the war on terror itself which seems to prevail the history of the United States. Nationalism is a prevailing ideology around the world, and extremely popular in this country which is considered as the only superpower in the world, but this nationalism is different. It …show more content…
Or can the country afford the price to correct itself?

Now we know we are bad, and we want to correct ourselves. However, in a larger, historical context, a recognition of our mistakes could hardly lead to an immediate solution. Imagine, now we are standing at the founding of this nation. The price one is going to pay for freeing the slaves, to protect the Native Americans is the failure of this country. What will you choose? Some may argue there are multiple ways to make this country better other than plunder, but the case in the history of the United States was that all the significant choices made in the history were never due to morality, but interests.

I don't know if you feel the a loop of tragedy here. The sense of moral supremacy, to save the world is coming from the freedom, the ideology that prevails in this country, but that freedom actually results from others suffering which you mean to save at the end of the day. The war on terror on the stage might be another start of the loop, and apparently, the government has no interest in stopping it, and it shouldn't.

Here, I'm not trying to criticise anyone or any ideology, but simply stating ut the problem I'm