tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post113331634158426727..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: A pax on all your houses!kushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-45715884895607855182010-07-29T13:34:00.743+09:002010-07-29T13:34:00.743+09:00I also think Pax Americana is desirable. You could...I also think Pax Americana is desirable. You could argue Pax Mongolica -- the peace part -- was a great time to live. For a number of reasons, but one of which is trade/technology transfers between East and West. Pax Britannica would be another time. <br /><br />But, I think your position should as time goes by be questioned. I think as the question of whether China will be a dangerously disruptive power to the status quo remains open, many countries will come to see the necessity of a U.S. role. <br /><br />As China gets richer and richer, the country will naturally want to assert itself in a military dimension, which will naturally cause other countries to feel threatened. These countries would naturally look towards the U.S. to protect them. <br /><br />Discomfort with "US hegemony" will ease as the fear of "Chinese hegemony" increases. I think Peter Lee also touches upon this in an Asia Times article. It's linked on One Free Korea.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12027263592390141987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-1133345445546263332005-11-30T19:10:00.000+09:002005-11-30T19:10:00.000+09:00commitment to democracy, economic growth, and huma...commitment to democracy, economic growth, and human rights<BR/><BR/>You should have stopped before the PLUS Kush. There is no commitment to democracy unless it is convenient. ALL the Gulf States are proof of that, as is Egypt. Friendly dictators are ok as history has shown (South Vietnam, Phillipines, South America, Persia, you name it). Guantanamo Bay and the current administration's defence of torture (admitedly by others)also puts paid to the human rights idea. Basically the US has the most powerful army and is the most willing to use it, nothing more.<BR/><BR/>Other than that, the arguement is sound, although I don't agree with it.San Nakjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817117832993227739noreply@blogger.com