{"id":6705,"date":"2023-10-06T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:20:37","slug":"pax-americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/pax-americana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pax Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What Will we Fall For&nbsp;(<em>Hamilton<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I write a lot, (about 1600 essays since 2017, maybe a million and a half words), and I read a lot too.\u00a0\u00a0And recently I\u2019ve read \u201cmessages\u201d from Europe.\u00a0\u00a0While there is occasional resentment of America (even that term: that \u201cwe\u201d are Americans, while Canada, on the same continent, are Canadians), there is also admiration.\u00a0\u00a0The United States took on the challenge of world peace for more than half a century.\u00a0\u00a0Sure that often made Americans arrogant, the bull in the China shop, but in the end, the United States was \u201con the line\u201d for the Western World.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that continued across party lines; from Truman to Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon.&nbsp;&nbsp;Regardless of Democrat or Republican, US commitment was clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, America transitioned to the new world threat, radical extremism.&nbsp;&nbsp;It took a fierce shot to the American head, 9-11, to make it clear that there was no defense like a good offense in that battle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>And to my liberal friends, that doesn\u2019t justify the \u201cstupid\u201d wars, like Vietnam and Iraq, nor the loss of rights in the \u201cPatriot Act\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That was American arrogance, not protection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Europe could depend on two things:&nbsp;&nbsp;protection and arrogance.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a reasonable trade-off.&nbsp;&nbsp;Until the rise of Donald Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, many Europeans are worried about America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">America First<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To be clear, Donald Trump is an opportunist, not a creator.\u00a0\u00a0He is not the originator of the \u201cMAGA\u201d philosophy, echoing the discredited 1930\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d isolationist movement.\u00a0\u00a0No one can conclude that isolationism, a concept that didn\u2019t work in the relatively simple time of the mid-twentieth century, will work in our current intertwined world.\u00a0\u00a0The computer I\u2019m typing on now was made in China, and the car I drive manufactured in Toledo, Ohio, with parts shipped in from Korea, Mexico, and Canada.\u00a0\u00a0We can phone India, video Russia, or even chat with Nepal, at the touch of a keyboard.\u00a0\u00a0The entire world is literally in our pocket.\u00a0\u00a0Isolationism today makes as much sense as pretending the right hand doesn\u2019t know what the left hand is doing.\u00a0\u00a0It does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump Presidency shook the world\u2019s confidence in American commitment.&nbsp;&nbsp;And much of the world gave a great sigh of relief when Joe Biden gained the Presidency.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t that Biden is some \u201cdynamic\u201d leader.&nbsp;&nbsp;To paraphrase Senator Lloyd Bentsen\u2019s memorably comment to Dan Quayle:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBiden is no Jack Kennedy\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But Biden represents a calm return to America\u2019s role in the world since 1941.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even his age is appropriate:&nbsp;&nbsp;Biden understands what the United States is supposed to do, because he literally lived it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a United States still in disarray, three years after Biden defeated Trump, rattles the rest of the Western World to the core.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fall of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker is, \u201c\u2026all in all, it\u2019s just another piece of the wall\u201d (<em>wow, I\u2019m down to Pink Floyd lyrics<\/em>!!).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Europeans looking for evidence of the \u201cfall\u201d of the \u201cPax Americana\u201d, need look no farther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Righteous Might<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Except I really don\u2019t believe that.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not the end of the \u201cAmerican Century\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a part of a regular cycle in American life; one that we\u2019ve seen throughout our recent history.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson all contributed to making the US a world power.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then after World War I, the Nation pulled back from world involvement, first in the twenties, then even more during the Great Depression.&nbsp;&nbsp;But Franklin Roosevelt led America to fight against Fascism with, as he said, our \u201cRighteous Might\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And soon after that victory at war, America \u201cretrenchment\u201d became evident in the McCarthy era.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s our \u201cdark secret\u201d: teachers were muzzled, language altered. 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