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No, pre-Inauguration Washington is nothing like Baghdad or Kabul


No, pre-Inauguration Washington is nothing like Baghdad or Kabul
Mohamad BazziJan 20, 2021, 20:58 IST
Downtown Washington DC, January 2021.Andrew Lichtenstein for Insider
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol, harried journalists and TV talking heads resorted to the rhetoric of American exceptionalism and invoked tired tropes of Third World chaos.
These comparisons trivialize war, and the experience of millions of people who have lived under American occupation for the past two decades.
It s time for America to retire the myth of exceptionalism it tells itself to avoid facing a complicated reality, argues Mohamad Bazzi.
As rioters overran the US Capitol on Jan. 6, Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent, was reporting live from the scene. It was a tense and confusing moment, so Raddatz reached for a comparison that was somehow intended to reassure her American viewers. It is so horrible to know, we are in America where this is happen ....

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