Welp, I'm not saying pax romana is always a bad thing. Depends on the romana. Whatever keeps people from each other's throats -- particularly when one or both parties have nuclear or biological weapons. But ... keeping that kind of "peace" perpetually through arms without working on the underlying affronts to justice will never be anything but an expensive and ultimately resource-exhausting proposition. Justice is the key, but when it's been denied and bungled and tangled from so many directions for so incredibly long ... it's pretty hard to see how much untangling can occur.

A pax on all y'all!

xo/ww