But the payoff, for both the US and the liberal world order that it created, would be substantial. The key to success will be America's ability to retain the best – and abandon the worst – of that most American of notions: exceptionalism.
这不仅仅是语义学问题；如此挑战要求美国反思其在世界中的作用。但不管对美国还是对其所创造的自由世界秩序来说，这样做的好处是无穷的。成功的关键是美国能否对最“美国”的概念——例外论去芜存菁。