Thursday, September 19, 2002

More on Pax Americana

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Jonathan Freedland: Rome, AD ... Rome, DC? British serious discusion about Pax Americana.

Bear Left!: Mister Clean Tacitus quotes the Scottish leader Calgacus as saying "solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant": they create a desert, and call it peace. Calgacus accurately portrayed an important aspect of the Pax Romana. Assuming our records survive the next nineteen centuries, what will history tell of the Pax Americana?

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