On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The whole US hegemony thing lasted for just over a decade and proved
> to be pretty fragile, which makes me think that the US's supposedly
> hegemonic status was more a figment of the imagination than it was
> real.
Huh? You mean all that post-WW II stuff with the IMF, the dollar-gold standard, and NATO was imaginary?
Doug