American Manifest Destiny

A friend of mine who is a teacher in Saudi has been prompting her kids to consider how Manifest Destiny (remember that from middle- and high-school?) is played out in the modern world. Sounds like they have interesting discussions.

I hadn’t quite thought of it in those terms, but yeah, I can see it. The period of manifest destiny was all about expansion and our god given right to take over the continent. Now that horizons have expanded physically, electronically and mentally, the US is set on “manifesting” the world. Interesting argument, history might bear (bare? I always confuse those two) it out to be true. It seems it is certainly true with the current hawkish administration.