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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (54896)	4/6/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Except (as you say) Japan did not have the military hegemony that the United States now exercises. It was purely a (seemingly) economic dominance, or prospective dominance. The whole world now looks to the U. S. for direction in the exercise of power, whereas the Japanese were simply intoxicated with the miracle of their post WWII recovery. When you think of what insane inequities military dominance has preserved in other societies, it may be possible to imagine the entire United States as being offered undemanded tribute from other countries around the world. Somewhat as a few decades ago people living in Manhattan took it for granted that it was their natural right to enjoy an enormous flood of money that poured into New York because of its pre-eminence in finance, publishing, advertising, marketing, banking, and so on. I am not converting to the bullish side, but I am beginning to think that I need to get adjusted to a very long-lasting state of insanity. It was Louis XV, I think who said "Apres moi, le deluge." But it took quite a while for the deluge to appear.