World Police

Someone recently gave me the line that the US shouldn't be the world's police. Not like I haven't heard that line a thousand times before but this time it prompted me to start writing....

Okay ... aside from the fact that, as I mentioned the job of the police is the eternally thankless job ... if you're going to say that the United States shouldn't be the world police ... well that begs the question "Well, then who should?"

You didn't just say the U.N. did you?

Seriously, did you?

What are you SMOKING?

Do you seriously think that the U.N. could actually DO anything? Let’s take a few moments and examine things, shall we?

First, the U.N. has no military of its own. It relies on the military of the member states to enforce its missions and resolutions.... the majority of the military forces used by the U.N. are US Military Units. On top of that a major portion of the U.N. budget is provided by the US.

Second, the U.N. has never actually enforced any of it's resolutions in any meaningful way. Economic sanctions DON'T WORK ... they never have ... especially when you have a body of people that are more than willing to write in loopholes so that in the end the 'sanctions' usually have little to no impact on the ruling government and any real impact is on the people of the country in question. (This usually leads to MORE loopholes to try and get them some relief, which is then siphoned into the country’s government, repeat as needed)

Saddam thumbed his nose at the U.N. resolutions for over 12 years before WE decided to actually go in and DO something about it ... left to their own devices the U.N. would have continued to have passed meaningless resolutions and various U.N. officials and foreign governments would have continued getting fat off of the Oil for Food scandal.

If the US were to do what it should and cut all ties with the UN, removing both the economic backing and military support. Many of the UN leaders would piss themselves as the organization crumbled around them ... Sorry folks ... the UN is a failed experiment, and at some point we're going to need to recognize that fact and start anew.

So ... not the UN. Then who?

Russia - Um ... no.

China - No thanks.

Germany - yeah ... I don't see THAT happening any time soon.

France - Yeah ... THAT will work.

The UK - Sorry ... they can't back it up unless they start the whole empire thing back up ... and they couldn't hold that together last time.

The EU in general - rule by committee rarely works, and I expect that any such attempt would ultimately find themselves in the same problems as the UN.

Do we HAVE to have a world police ... well ... you see ... nature abhors a vacuum ... SOMEONE is going to be on top. Would you rather it be a country ruled by Law, or a country ruled by Men (or in some instances Man)?

If you don't want the US as King of the Hill ... who do you want in our place?