Yes, the man is clearly a power tripping control freak bereft of morals, ethics or normal human empathy. But that's just my opinion.

I've always advocated, you achieve far more with a teaspoon of honey than a whole jar of vinegar.

Even so, some dictators can only be put back in their box with their own personal annihilation and in the case of North Korea, snuffing out a few lives/psychotics, may save millions.

In the meantime we can best represent our cause by using what we have as a typical good samaritans to lift the yoke of hunger, poverty and unmet need from the backs of the oppressed and dispossessed. And end the perceived need to create fear to produce positive outcomes!

As simple as providing carbon free energy solutions even the third world can afford and with that energy allow solutions like gifted deionisation dialisis desalination to change their landscape, their prospects and eventually the face of the planet.

As this occurs massively expand our trade related opportunities with these new emerging economies. And so, to assist as outlined, is in our own self interest, ultimately. Or if you will, spending a sprat to catch a mackerel.

And where that is the case, remove most if not all the reasons for human conflict.

As that follows, change the face of the planet to one with gardens where there once were uninhabitable deserts.
Alan B.

One only needs to read the speech given in 1933 by a retired US Marine General, Smedley Butler, to see how nothing at all has changed in over 120 years.
"War is a racket" See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

What a diatribe Kampmark.

Why do you restrict America from doing what most countries do?

Something about the predictably left Melbourne academic in you?

Most other countries have parades eg. British Royal (Military) Parades. France, India, Russia all have military parades.

Why to you make the US a exceptionalist prisoner?

Your kind will hate America anyway (unless it apologises on its knees) in your RMIT staff room. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=715

The only way one could equate the Roman Empire and the US hegemony is if you :

1. Utterly misunderstand the nature of the Roman Empire
2. Utterly misunderstand the nature of the US leadership of the West
3. Utterly torture the meaning of the word 'empire'.

Then, and only then, yeah the US is just like Rome.

BTW Rome existed as an empire for about 800 years. Here's hoping the US emulates that as well.

' Donald Trump wetting himself over a military parade in another country was one thing' and you come from academia Binoy. Wow how low the bar is now. No doubt your hatred will help your career.

Actually ROME as a Kingdom , Republic and Empire lasted for just over 2,000 years. Only in Western European History do we believe that it disappeared in 476 AD.. The Eastern half of the Empire lasted until 1453 AD.. Only Europeans , for Religious & Political reasons called it something else as opposed to the Catholic Holy Roman Empire... and then later still called it the Byzantine Empire. In the East it was the Roman Empire until its' end.

What the Article does prove is , is that FAKE NEWS is 2,000 years old, at least.. promoted by Academics like Agricola then and nowadays.........?

Well yes, there are any number of start and end dates for Rome's reign. Personally I was using the period from Brennus to Odoacer ie 390BC to 476AD.

I find it a little hard to credit the Eastern Empire as being the Roman Empire given that it no longer had Rome as part of its domain and had few attributes of classical Rome. I favour the view that Justinian was the last of the Romans. I see the Byzantine empire as a successor empire much like the Hellenistic empires were successor empires to Alexander's empire. Saying the empire continued down to 1453 is similar to saying the Macedonian Empire continue down to 31BC since the Ptolemies remained on the Egyptian throne.

As to Tacitus' quote about the Pax Romana, I don't take it as a criticism of Rome. Tacitus was merely writing what he thought Calcagus would have said, in the tradition of Thucydides.

Well! welcome to the real world Binoy.

All countries keep armies and armed soldiers.

It should be obvious knowing these facts, that all countries are held at the point of a gun.
ALL countrys. Even so called countries who credit democracy as their ruling type of power, wouldnt be democratic countries if the army wasnt in support.

Also no ethnic group can rule any country, where the entire army is a different ethnic group. Academics are lost in the fantasy of love and peace and we can make it this way.. But the truth is they cant

Binoy

You yourself seem to have developed amnesia about the savagery and slaughter by
other countrys.
Muslim Empire, 7million died.
Japanese Empire 9 million Chinese
Millions dead in Syria and Iraq at the hands of warring Arab tribes.
Africa, Sudan and Libya savery and slaughter
Indonesians in Timor
Ghenghis Khan.
Stalin

You seem to want to only point the finger at America,
But the whole human race constantly carries out the savagery and slaughter you speak of. Why then should America be singled out by you? Racist hatred perhaps on your part.