The funny thing about the shado-pan story and what it all relates to, we were lead to believe that the pandaren themselves were people who simply by being overly good and relaxed about life and being friendly is all they needed to do to keep peace in there lands.
Yet scratch the surface and what he find are things like the shado-pan, with them keeping the sha in check, keeping watch for when the mantid swarm again, keeping the mogu held back, and there general hardened approach to all matters, you find that pandaria has always been a land with conflict, and the only thing keeping in held in check has been hardened vets and fighters standing against the evils of the land, while the rest of the pandaren act chilled and meditating.
I'm actually a little disappointed in the approach of this story, its more of less debunks the pandaren culture with the shado-pan as going as far to use cruel methods of punishment, which doesn't seem anything like pandaren and even borders on garrosh-ish type orcs.