Pax Americana

Michael Goldfarb has been thinking of Pax Americana and America's legions spread around the world for some time. He specifically mentions 1970 and 1999 and 2000.

This in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution remains one of the best short pieces on why Bush wants to go into Iraq- to establish the Pax Americana doctrine.

Emily Eakin had an overview of the support that an imperial doctrine received in influential conservative quarters in 2002.