On Jan 26, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The US wasn't hegemonic in 1960 or 1970 or 1980. There was the USSR
> right there. Hell the US wasn't even hegemonic over Gaullist France.
That's an original position. Yeah, there was the USSR. But the US was the unchallenged hegemon of the capitalist world. It had troops occupying Germany and Japan, the dollar was as good as gold only run through Washington and New York, and Hollywood was filling heads everywhere.
Doug