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In a better world would somebody, presumably like the United Nations, act as the World's Policeman?
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That would be great!!! | |
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That would be ok | |
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That wouldn't be that big a deal - wouldn't do much. | |
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That would be kind of a bad idea. | |
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That would be terrible!!! | |
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If only the world's policeman would outlaw bullshit polls! | |
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LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)FSogol
(45,446 posts)Over my dead body!
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)Kennah
(14,234 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
MADem
(135,425 posts)The question really isn't "should," because someone will take the role if it's left vacant.
on point
(2,506 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Then drinks coffee. And waits.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)'Think of the children!' is a much overused phrase. But sometimes thinking of the children is the right thing.
I'm hoping this entire sequence of events makes everyone -Assad, the rebels, everyone- rethink what they are doing.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Maybe I'm too young to be this cynical but I think some people enjoy being who they are even if who they are is being an asshole.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Raksha
(7,167 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Raksha
(7,167 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)That argument would actually have some merit though I see no reason to allow that to drag the US into a war of choice.
Raksha
(7,167 posts)is the George Zimmerman of international law enforcement--sickening as that is.
RC
(25,592 posts)The US is not an honest policeman. We are a long time corrupt and lean on other countries to do our bidding. The list is long. Even Hawaii was acquired under duress. The then Queen surrendered to save her people from being killed by superior (read invading) US forces, on behest of business men.
In 1887, Kalākaua was forced to sign the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, which stripped the king of much of his authority. There was a property qualification for voting, which disenfranchised most Hawaiians and immigrant laborers, and favored the wealthier white community. Resident whites were allowed to vote, but resident Asians were excluded. Because the 1887 Constitution was signed under threat of violence, it is known as the "Bayonet Constitution". King Kalākaua, reduced to a figurehead, reigned until his death in 1891. His sister, Liliʻuokalani, succeeded him on the throne.
row of men with rifles
Ship's landing force at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893.
In 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani announced plans for a new constitution. On January 14, 1893, a group of mostly Euro-American business leaders and residents formed a Committee of Safety to overthrow the Kingdom and seek annexation by the United States. United States Government Minister John L. Stevens, responding to a request from the Committee of Safety, summoned a company of U.S. Marines. As one historian noted, the presence of these troops effectively made it impossible for the monarchy to protect itself.[52]
Overthrow of 1893the Republic of Hawaii (18941898)
In January 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown and replaced by a Provisional Government composed of members of the Committee of Safety. Controversy filled the following years as the queen tried to re-establish her throne. The administration of President Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report, which concluded that the removal of Liliʻuokalani was illegal. The U.S. government first demanded that Queen Liliʻuokalani be reinstated, but the Provisional Government refused. Congress followed with another investigation, and submitted the Morgan Report on February 26, 1894, which found all parties (including Minister Stevens) with the exception of the queen "not guilty" from any responsibility for the overthrow.[53] The accuracy and impartiality of both the Blount and Morgan reports has been questioned by partisans on both sides of the debate over the events of 1893.[52][54][55][56]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii
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sibelian
(7,804 posts)Not tremendously healthy!
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)It's Machiavelli 101: whatever you do, you should make it look virtuous:
I'm not stealing that guy's gold fillings to sell them and melt them down--I'm worried they might contain mercury that will poison him. That he got killed in the process is just an unfortunate misunderstanding.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Is the only possible cop a corrupt cop? or is it within the realm of possibility that we could have an honest cop? Not the US perhaps.
Bryant
yurbud
(39,405 posts)but I've never looked at any of their interventions closely enough to check if they were truly altruistic.
Kennah
(14,234 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It just doesn't have an enforcement branch.
http://www.interpol.int/About-INTERPOL/Vision-and-mission