American Exceptionalism

One theme that has not changed during the course of America's history is the "American exceptionalism". An example of it is T.R. "The New Nationalism" speech:
"The history of America is now the central feature of the history of the world; for the world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy."
And he goes on saying how each of us carries the burden of the world in addition to our country. It's what some call the secular version of "Citty upon the Hill" of the Puritans. I guess if you follow this through the “New World Order” and now to “Promoting Democracy” you can reach the same point as Bush did when before invading Iraq in 2003 and said:(the quote is a bit out of context but I still like it this way) “This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.” America is the Citty upon the Hill and everyone is "strongly encouraged" to improve themselves by emulating her. I see the world going in this direction and is it bad you ask? No; it's only natural to follow the winner! Imagine the new world order that Russia would have established had they won the cold war.