The American addiction to war

[Gufi]

1. Economic improvement and status
2. Military improvement and status
3. Social improvement and status
4. Political improvement and status

The third one and forth one, please elaborate on what you consider improvement and bench marks sir

 

[FaujHistorian]

The third one and forth one, please elaborate on what you consider improvement and bench marks sir

#1 country is typically based on four (or more legs).

1. Economic improvement and status
2. Military improvement and status
3. Social improvement and status
4. Political improvement and status

China is going towards the economic improvement for sure. It is also easy to gain military status with economic improvement (at least partially).

So what about the remaining two legs?

My limited reading shows that it takes centuries to gain social and political status.

For china it will be doubly difficult. Smaller countries can experiment with social and political setup and get away with it.

But to change political and social setup of billion plus people!

So what is political and social improvement?

it means how that country deals with diversity including racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious etc.

And how such diversity and associated different thoughts and ideas impact the way people live, work, and interact. This is what I meant with social improvement. Chinese being very large Han majority is working fine now. But to be number 1, they have to become much more diverse ethnically so people from all over the world will move in out of china, live and work there for long time. If this doesn't happen, then China will remain close #2 or #3 but never #1

Similarly political improvement must deal with diverse political ideas and open to change relatively quickly. So far China is a single party closed system. This again will be great if China remains one of the lesser powers. A factory of the world, but not a true #1 power of the world.

this discussion off course is very brief, and thus you may have many questions. And that's OK.

peace

 

[VCheng]

If this doesn't happen, then China will remain close #2 or #3 but never #1

Many here would disagree with you vehemently.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Many here would disagree with you vehemently.

off course. Pakistanis in general do not study history from multiple perspectives.

Lack of historical knowledge means, predictions will be bad. I see this on PDF all the time. most of the posters making terribly wrong predictions. Now you know why!

No wonder Pakistan and countries in similar situation go from one disaster to the next. Why?

If you don't know from where and HOW you got here, it will be very hard to figure out where and how you will get there.

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

You polarise the world and you go some steps closer to a clash of civilizations

How do you know that is not the objective?

 

[macnurv]

U.S has been the de facto sheriff of the free world since 1945. if we had taken a isolationist stance the red menace of communism wold control the world.

everybody hates the man but the man don't care

And than I wondered who in their right mind would vote for Palin, now I know. Thank you.

off course. Pakistanis in general do not study history from multiple perspectives.

Lack of historical knowledge means, predictions will be bad. I see this on PDF all the time. most of the posters making terribly wrong predictions. Now you know why!

No wonder Pakistan and countries in similar situation go from one disaster to the next. Why?

If you don't know from where and HOW you got here, it will be very hard to figure out where and how you will get there.

It is not just Pakistanis, its a worldwide trend. Humanity will never learn from history and the history can vouch for that. What you can say we are one of the worst offenders, lol.

 

[VCheng]

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No wonder Pakistan and countries in similar situation go from one disaster to the next. Why?

If you don't know from where and HOW you got here, it will be very hard to figure out where and how you will get there.

"You can't get to there from here!", as they say.

 

[FaujHistorian]

"You can't get to there from here!", as they say.

Being very "poetic". Nice!

 

[posedion]

Tyrants like Mao Adee Ameen pol pot and Kim Jong Bitch would have ruled the world if not for America

By the way that scum Mao alone was responsible for 70 million deaths