Pax Americana is not the way the world normally operates

Richard Fernandez gets it right again:

The idea that the office on the corner will always be able to dispense Government Cheese does not reflect the normal historical experience. Rather it reflects that peculiar period of stability and prosperity which followed the end of the Second World War: the Pax Americana, which the Left hates. Our civilizational attitudes have been formed on the basis of the exception, not the rule.

We in the first world have been on a global vacation from history since the 1960's.  I fear its time to get back to work.

Whole article here.