OT re: "You could say that US residents lived in chaos druing....."
No, you couldn't.
China's "Time of Chaos" began when the Brits, in two wars, destroyed the authority of the Chinese central government. Those Victorians fought for the right to make money, by turning as many Chinese into addicts as possible, then selling them opium (grown in India).
From 1839 through 1949, China had no effective central government, no power could enforce the laws. The country was controlled by an ever-shifting patchwork of warlords, bandit gangs, the armies of various political parties and religious sects, and foreign armies. There was no security for persons or property.
Then, after 1949, China was ruled for a generation, by one of the greatest mass murderers of history.
The U.S. has never, in its entire history, experienced anything remotely like that, even briefly.
The American wars you cite, all happened away from the settled homeland, except for the Revolutionary War and, to a lesser extent, the Civil War. And even in those wars, the rule of law never broke down. |
