One would be hard pressed to find a country – or a media – more supportive of American exceptionalism than Romania. In a column sure to warm the Christmas hearts of the American right, columnist Cristian Campeanu of Romania Libera writes that despite the massive evidence WikiLeaks has provided of the accuracy of America’s global view, the ‘real’ world continues to obstinately refuse to dispense with the myth of the “Great Satan” propagated by the radical left.
For Romania Libera, columnist Cristian Campeanu writes in part:
If Julian Assange intended to strike a blow at American “imperialism” by releasing U.S. diplomatic cables, the results have been exactly the opposite: the American vision of the world is the accurate one, and the view of the radical left has been discredited.
The cables confirm the fact that American foreign policy is exactly what leaders in Washington say it is. In other words, there is neither a planetary-level conspiracy nor a malevolent plot for world domination; no hidden agenda and no inclination to put American foreign policy at the service of Zionism. To the disappointment of conspiracy theorists everywhere, it wasn’t Israel who asked Americans to “cut off the head of the Iranian snake,” but King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
The cosmic irony of WikiLeaks’ disclosure is that it highlights the fact that the “real” world still obstinately refuses to dispense with the myth propagated by the radical left. The world is by no means a peaceful and friendly place in which united nations might hold hands in a global embrace if only the American imperialist devil didn’t transform it into hell with its evil interventions. In fact, the world is a complicated and dangerous place, filled with corrupt and irresponsible leaders; it is a place where conflict is more the rule and peace the exception. It is a place where distinguishing the good guys from the bad, like you can in a third-rate film, often cannot be done – and more seriously, there are very often no good guys at all.
As the leaked documents reveal, the real world is more like Bush’s than Obama’s, and they discredit the naive and utopian view of the radical left that Assange represents.
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