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[–] AlphaWookie 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wrong. The world never has to worry about any of the tribes Genghis Khan utterly destroyed through his actions he ushered in an era of peace and trade for the far east not seen in centuries. The total violent nature of Islamic expansion crushed all rival tribes in the middle east for close to 1000 years in the region leading to great wealth. The utter brutality of Rome crushed Europe and brought the pax romana for over 400 years and an Empire for around 1000 years. The utter brutality of America against the Empire of Japan, Italy, and Germany has lead to peace for Europe for 70 years in Europe one of the longest periods of peace in Europe for hundreds of years and made Japan for swear war ever again a first for a nation state. Crushing your enemy under your boot heel brings about lasting peace in a region. Just examine the historical record.

Now consider Israel who has limited skirmishes with its enemies keeps getting attacked. The only nations in the middle east that have made peace are the ones Israel crushed completely in war.

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[–] CarlTheMagician ago 

It's too bad the only place you can hear about these grand empires is in history books. Except America, but we're still pretty young so we have plenty of time to reproduce the same mistakes that have been made hundreds of times before us.