...Nobody would claim that America's global intentions have always been entirely pure. Still, our foreign policy [~] from the Barbary war to Kosovo [~] has usually had a strain of idealism at which the cynical Europeans have scoffed. In the case of Iraq, they just can't seem to accept that we might be acting for, say, the general safety and security of the world. After more than 200 years, Europe still hasn't figured out what makes America tick.

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