Barack Obama announces end of Pax Americana

Last Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama renounced Pax Americana, signaling an end to America’s role as global policeman, writes James Lewis for American Thinker.

While the Tehran regime grows increasingly dangerous,

our own president is proclaiming the end of Pax Americana, the most successful peace-keeping policy in human history. He publicly denies the plain and obvious lessons of history. The fascist regime in Tehran would not even exist were it not for the abject failures of another president in exactly the same mold, the blighted Jimmy Carter. …Since … 1939, the United States has come to be the guarantor of peace in the world. Yes, the Soviet Union killed more German soldiers than any other combatant in World War ii. But if Stalin had his druthers the ussr would have been a Nazi ally, as the Hitler-Stalin pact promised to do, to split up Poland and to allow the Nazi war machine to turn west and conquer all of Europe.The United States came into the war not because it wanted to control the world, like Stalin’s ussr, but because totalitarian aggression gave us no choice. That is the origin of Pax Americana, which has kept the peace in most of the world most of the time since 1946.Obama doesn’t believe it. He is a victim of revisionist leftists, who deliberately twist the plain and obvious facts.We keep forgetting the most vital lessons of history. A big one is that you need a good cop to keep the peace. That’s why we have cops on our streets. We trust them, because they are generally admirable and trustworthy. There is no international police force we can trust. What we have instead is a “superpower”—the U.S.—which is supported, when push comes to shove, by all the other countries that know they can only thrive in a stable world. …Who would you like to be guarding the world instead of the United States? The UN? China or Russia? Europe? …It’s either Pax Americana, nuclear war, or tyranny.

But Pax Americana is indeed gone. And, as Stephen Flurry wrote in his column Friday,

We are about to see an unfathomable amount of destruction explode all over the Earth. It’s as dangerous as this world has ever been, and yet, this is the unmistakably weak and childish message the United States of America is sending to the world: We have fully abandoned our position as lone superpower and international policeman. We are but one nation among many in the community of nations. We have no moral authority to impose our will on any other nation, no matter how dangerous that nation or its leadership might be.

This is precisely what Herbert W. Armstrong prophesied for decades would eventuate, as his book The United States and Britain in Prophecy explains.