Essay - Manifest Destiny the United States Has Often Been Accused of...

manifest destiny

The United States has often been accused of promoting the image ***** exceptional values and moral norms. Indeed, the fact that the US is ***** result of a historical context in which the forces of imperialism were defeated at the hands of the revolutionary armies ********** historians, politicians, journalists, and even common people the base for constructing a belief in ***** predestined fate of the American land and ***** an apostolic mission towards the world. this perspective on ***** *****eign policy was more or less a c*****st*****nt incentive f***** the United States ***** in the last century it can be said that the notion of "manifest dest*****y" has ***** the driving force of every accomplishments and failures of ***** US Administrations.

The ***** in *****self is attributed to "John Lou***** O'Sullivan, a New York journ*****list ***** Irish descent, confident and optimistic ***** temperament" (Haynes ***** Morris, 1997, 7). The period in ***** the term ***** coined coincided with the early struggles of the US colonies ***** break away from the pressures ***** ***** British Empire. In this sense, there were constant desires to escape the colonial domination of the British, a strive which ultimately evolved in the ***** Revolution (Jenkins, 1997). Nonetheless, one ***** the first signs of the emerging ***** of the United ***** to follow a ***** future w*****s the Monroe Doctrine ***** 1823 which "stated that the U.S. would not *****lerate any new intervention by a European ***** power in ***** Americas. The policy put on record that the U.S. *****lieved itself ***** dominant power in the hemisphere. In subsequent decades, many U.S. presidents would take the Monroe ***** to heart" (Allard, 2006). *****refore, it can be stated that in the *****ginning, ***** political environment in the ***** was ***** one which de*****ined an entire belief over the mission of the ***** to promote the ***** of the Revolution, freedom, and liberty in the region.

These ideas ***** reconsidered years later ***** journalists ***** ***** particular by O'Sullivan. His article in the New York Times is viewed as ***** of the most representative illustrations of the way in which the ***** States would conduct its foreign policy in the following century. More precisely, the main argument ***** the journalist comes from the his*****rical conception of the United States ***** is in his opinion "derived ***** many other nations" and whose identity in terms ***** political aspects has "in reality but little connection with the past history of any ***** them" (n.d.). However, this argumentation aims at pointing out the ***** that the United States' emergence on to the international scene "was the beginning of a new his*****ry, the form*****tion a***** progress of an untried political system, which separates us from the ***** ********** connects us ***** ***** ***** only; and as far ***** regards the entire development of ***** natural rights of man, in moral, *****, and national life, we may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity"