the outcome of the election

[--Pete]

Hi,

. . . there is a Pax Americana . . .
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We do not have the 'leadership' to lead the world into a Pax Americana. We re-elected those who, in less than a year, pissed away a generation of international good will building topped by the rebound from 9/11. Do we have the ruthlessness to drive the world to it? Do we have the political will and national toughness to line the Appian way with crosses at ten foot intervals? Or to shoot Sepoys from guns? Or to plaster live people into pillars? Or to take any of the other courses that the big dogs of the past used to enforce their 'paxes'? And will spreading our values with the whip preserve them?

I look into our past and peer into our future and understand Burns better.

--Pete