>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>I would point out that all of us--no matter what our
>>nationality--should get down on our knees and thank God daily that
>>over the twentieth century the decisive shaper of world culture was
>>not one of the... alternative "mighty states": Russian officials,
>>Japanese honor-bound authorities, German... ahem.
>
>Millions of Indochinese and Latin Americans might view American
>hegemony with a bit less cheer than you do.
>
>Doug
And how would they view the hegemony of the mid-twentieth century Germans?
