To me it always seemed the American FP is designed to an extent on the theory of Roman EMipre in its hey days. george Bush nevertheless acted the role of NERO in its new disguised form. Even the city on the Hill also designed on the Roman architecture and so the WH. But if we seriously study the decline of Roman empire, we can clearly infer that days of American hegemony is limited and the War in Af-Pak will mark the demise of US as a global police. Lets us recall the story of the fal lof Roman empire as objectively put forward by Gibbon.

According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens.[4] They had become weak, outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to take over the Empire. Romans, he believed, had become effeminate, unwilling to live a tougher, "manly" military lifestyle.

The question obviously arises will who will be the next global police. The analyst will point to China. But China wil say no thank you very much but we do not want ot be global police. But yes we will play a decisive role in the global affairs,and thus we will be a global responsible stake if we borrow the Robert Zoliek terminology over quoted by the western academia. China may take another 30 years to emerge as a super power but it is already asserting her dominant position in the global affairs and is getting ready to take on the American Hegemony in the Asia Pacific region.

The US decline and surrender to Chinese may not be a reality in a short time, but nevertheless the ice is braking down and the paper tiger is going to be exposed by the new Avtar of Chairman Mao. Hu Jintao, China;s fourth Generation leader is a neo-conservative and would not be easily accommodating in the global system of rule setting. Hu is earless to several demands of West when it came to stop the execution of UK citizen in Xinjiang China, and Dalai honeymoon trips to France and Capitol Hill. Hu seems determined to lead China where it will be difficult to look back.


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