{"id":1341,"date":"2002-01-22T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2002-01-22T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2002-01-22T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2002-01-22T20:46:10","slug":"pax_americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/22\/pax_americana.html","title":{"rendered":"Pax Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting, provocative piece from USS Clueless<\/a> on the US de facto imposing a Pax Americana since WWII — but on its own terms, and with limited interest in multilateralism and compromise and consensus.<\/p>\n

And the US came out of that with a deep distrust of European wisdom and European advice. No matter how much older and wiser they claimed to be, they hadn’t managed to do what we had ourselves: unite a huge area under a single government and live without war. We fought our Civil War, but that was 140 years ago and we’ve mastered living together ever since. And it took our meddling and our military occupation to make them live together without war.<\/p>\n

It all seems terribly arrogant — but I’m having problems poking holes in it. And, perhaps, that arrogance is warranted. It’s very dangerous to have that sort of righteous arrogance, but that doesn’t make it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting, provocative piece from USS Clueless on the US de facto imposing a Pax Americana since WWII — but on its own terms, and with limited interest in multilateralism…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41884,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/syfy-gets-some-comic-book-goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":1341,"position":0},"title":"Syfy gets some comic-book goodness","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Apr-14 5:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. 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