[Ryzorian]

No Rome wasn't "peace loveing", they had peace because everyone else was afraid of them. However, dureing that time period, culture advanced by leaps and bounds. Science, art, music, technology, everything everyone considers" civilizations progress" is achieved through empires. It's a sort of by product of empires, you don't get these massive jumps in culture without empires...you just have dark ages. Empires establish stablity, through that stability comes inovation, art, music, medicine.


I'm not rewriteing history with "Pax Americana"..I'm saying that's what we should be doing now. It's how we should run our diplomatic responses. I'm not relatively speaking persay about the bombs and those being different times. Like I said, to me they are simply tools, to use as required..

Peace through strength doesn't mean your world cop trying to make everyone play nice, it means people play nice because you'll wipe them off the earth if they don't. Peace only survives because of war, it's that threat of all out war, that keeps the peace.

What I did mean is that in those days, the US population was not going to except anything other than unconditional surrender. Also there are rumer's that FDR wanted Japan punished severally for Pearl Harbor. True or not I can't say, but the end results speak volumes.