Special burden Posted by Michael Signer

True to form, the President launches a peroration at the end of this speech that hits higher emotional and aspirational notes.  "More than any other nation," he says, "the United States has underwritten global security for over six decades."  And he approves -- as do I, as do the cadets in his audience, as do many of his audience.  He toes a careful line between the ambitions of American exceptionalism and the limits -- saying that we do not aim at "domination," but at moral authority.  And then he gets his first applause line -- earned through a unique merger of aspirations and reflection. 

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