The pax Americana
We don't want an empire, says Dubya, in the bucket of bilge that he hopes will pass as a State of the Onion address. It's somewhat belied, though, by a look at the map. America's military bases ring the world. Is it really such a stretch to see in them the coloniae of the new Rome?
I don't know how accurate the Mother Jones article is, but the idea of US bases in Eastern Europe and, swipe me!, Vietnam is quite breathtaking.
The Americans say they are bringing "freedom" to the world, but it seems that the one freedom they won't tolerate is the freedom to choose not to.
The Romans brought the pax Romana, but they didn't build it by consensus, they brought it by swords. They did it for much the same reasons, too, to make the world safe for the moneymakers, to make the rich richer...
I wonder, who will be our barbarians?
posted by Dr Zen @ 1:41 am
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