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i love that this generated so much discussion; personally i'm well-past this post because really, i posted because i think that some harsh rhetoric needs to be heard in response to a lot of the anti-Americanism that stems not only from many Chinese (who, while friends with me, hate America and want to see it destroyed...how terrible is that??? Then, at least, what I'm saying is no worse) but from the rest of the world.
a war with China would be horrendously devastating to the world, if only because it wouldn't really be China vs. US but one falsely-confident ideal versus another (capitalism vs. communism).
I thought I'd get personally blasted for this, and let me say that it was really nice to see that that didn't happen, and that at least some real consideration was made for this.
I still believe in the hegemonic system, however, and while I think that there will always be a hegemon, we should see that either the hegemon is bad and everybody tries to remove it (Bush II's America) or the hegemon is mostly good and nobody minds too much (but still complain, surely).
And then, of course, this is coming from someone too young to have real perspective on war at all, sheltered by the "glorious" Pax Americana. Regardless, what I really want to see are Americans standing up for themselves!! I hate the idea of arbitrary nationalistic lines but that's how the world operates right now and I'm tired of hearing about China/Russia/Europeans/whomever basking in America's recent failures, whose complaining seeps into the minds of Americans when instead Americans should be saying "despite some of the terrible things our nation has done, look at all of the great things we've done, and let's work on growing *that* part of our culture"
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