Larissa
6th March 2003, 16:21
Jerusalem Post, March 2003:
"The victory in Iraq will likely usher in a period of unprecedented American dominance in world affairs, akin only to the Pax Romana inaugurated by Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, in the year 27 BCE. For nearly two centuries, Rome was the unrivalled global superpower, throwing around its weight at will, expanding its empire and enjoying a period of peace and
prosperity. America looks set to do the same, once Saddam and his evil regime are removed from power. The Arabs will be livid with rage, the Europeans will again feel slighted, and Russia will no doubt be irritated.
The easiest way for Bush to patch up America's relations with the world, and bring down the price of oil, will be to impose a peace settlement on Israel and the Palestinians, bringing about an end to the century-old Middle East conflict. And that is precisely what he aims to do: Pax Americana, or keeping the empire quiet... It is therefore essential that Israel act now to rally its supporters across the United States and prevent such a scenario from unfolding."
Washington Post, August 2001:
"People who label the United States 'imperialist' usually mean it as an insult. But in recent years a handful of conservative defense intellectuals have begun to argue that the United States is indeed acting in an imperialist fashion -- and that it should embrace the role... The leading advocate of this idea of enforcing a new 'Pax Americana' is Thomas Donnelly, deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century, a
Washington think tank that advocates a vigorous, expansionistic Reaganite foreign policy."
Stay tuned: you will hear the term Pax Americana for the rest of your life.
Unless it's deemed banned as a statement of sympathy with terrorists.
"The victory in Iraq will likely usher in a period of unprecedented American dominance in world affairs, akin only to the Pax Romana inaugurated by Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, in the year 27 BCE. For nearly two centuries, Rome was the unrivalled global superpower, throwing around its weight at will, expanding its empire and enjoying a period of peace and
prosperity. America looks set to do the same, once Saddam and his evil regime are removed from power. The Arabs will be livid with rage, the Europeans will again feel slighted, and Russia will no doubt be irritated.
The easiest way for Bush to patch up America's relations with the world, and bring down the price of oil, will be to impose a peace settlement on Israel and the Palestinians, bringing about an end to the century-old Middle East conflict. And that is precisely what he aims to do: Pax Americana, or keeping the empire quiet... It is therefore essential that Israel act now to rally its supporters across the United States and prevent such a scenario from unfolding."
Washington Post, August 2001:
"People who label the United States 'imperialist' usually mean it as an insult. But in recent years a handful of conservative defense intellectuals have begun to argue that the United States is indeed acting in an imperialist fashion -- and that it should embrace the role... The leading advocate of this idea of enforcing a new 'Pax Americana' is Thomas Donnelly, deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century, a
Washington think tank that advocates a vigorous, expansionistic Reaganite foreign policy."
Stay tuned: you will hear the term Pax Americana for the rest of your life.
Unless it's deemed banned as a statement of sympathy with terrorists.