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> What justifies it is the fact that it is by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world. What you call "American hegemony" is about 60 year o
by bnegreve 13y ago
> What justifies it is the fact that it is by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world.
What you call "American hegemony" is about 60 year old, so this is not exactly the history of the world.
- rayiner 13y agoRight, but the history of the world is the history of hegemony, regional or global, and the US is by far the most benevolent.
- bnegreve 13y ago> the US is by far the most benevolent. This is debatable. Roman hegemony has created 400 years of peace whereas US has been involved in wars since WW2. I am not a us citizen but I don't have a problem with US trying to improve the life condition of its own citizens first (everybody does it). However, believing that US is completely fair to the rest of the world is too naive. The article actually identify several unfair behaviors: [...] A double standard on torture, a near indifference to casualties among non-American civilians, the gross expansion of the surveillance [...].
- rayiner 13y agoRome did create 400 years of peace, but it did so by outright conquering a vast swath of the known world and creating vassal states. And it's not like it didn't protect that peace through war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana ("The Legions patrolled the borders with success, and though there were still many foreign wars, the internal empire was free from major invasion, piracy, or social disorder on any grand scale."). > However, believing that US is completely fair to the rest of the world is too naive Sure, but asserting that the U.S. is the most benevolent hegemony in history does not require believing that the U.S. is "completely fair to the rest of the world."