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Truly Blessed

Even better than victory? Enemies who don’t mind defeat one bit

Collage by Eugenia Loli.

BY JONATHAN SCHWARZ • One of the great things about being American is we’re just lucky. For example: lots of other countries through history have killed millions of people—it sorta comes with the whole wealth and power thing. Afterwards, it’s only natural for the killing country to feel bad. But when America’s done what it had to do, we’ve always lucked out and picked people who turned out not to mind being killed

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