Policing the World

We can’t afford, monetarily or morally, to be the world’s policemen. However, we must use our leverage in the U.N. and in various treaty organizations (NATO, SEATO, etc.) to prevent and correct human rights violations. Isolating thug regimes by blockades, as well as confiscating their monetary resources, when possible, along with continual harassment from the air, is much preferable to putting forces in harm’s way. However, there will be times when invasion is necessary.

Further, we must realize that the U.N. is currently a very corrupt organization run by third-world dictators who want to be superpowers. We must get more involvement from the Western Europeans in helping to oversee and reform the corruption—kicking out those in office who break the rules and holding governments accountable monetarily who back them up. In the end, however, if we can’t reform it, we need to leave it.

At the same time, we must stop trying to bring into NATO countries that have been traditionally aligned with Russia. This will only provoke Russia to invade those countries, as it did Georgia in 2008.