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...Manifest Destiny Theory...
...rids itself of "a political leadership that obstinately believes that a vanguard with a very narrow social basis can make the revolution on behalf of all the people." This cannot be achieved, the document went on, "with the present leadership team, in view of its lack of credibility and manifest inability to govern...
...wonderfulness rolls on and on, these granite slabs shifting and heaving and finally buckling under--for Father, who is broken on the rocks, though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford to. He is obsessed...
What of the American promise to the world? Despite the doctrine of "manifest destiny" and certain episodes in Mexico and the Philippines, until World War I Americans widely agreed with the view that their country should lead by good example-or as Hayne Davis, a writer on international affairs, put it in the Independent hi 1903, "simply to let her light so shine, by wise conduct of her own home affairs, that other nations may see her good works and adopt the political principle which has been her source of power." This passive, if naively arrogant belief was transformed into...
...wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even has enough bluff and crust to look, at least superficially, like a real military romance, even a plea for manifest destiny. These notions are not being advanced as political theory but as the sort of antique sentiments that keep the movie true to its storybook sources. The glory, Milius knows, was mostly a dream. It is this knowledge that tinges the film with melancholy and also helps animate the battle scenes...