An analogy....
If Iraq were the neighbor across the street, and this neighbor was a bully and notorious for beating up the neighborhood kids, notorious for sneaking into to next door neighbor's yards and stealing tomatoes, kicking their dogs, molesting their pumpkin patches.... oh yah.. and selling crack cocaine to grandmas...
Alright, so Iraq is a very very bad neighbor... and the "UN" is the local government (also the local police) made up of all the other neighbor's on the street (aka the other countries int he world)...
And this local government is a democracy... action is taken by majority vote... by free speech on the issues... and by the a willingness to be fair and to govern by law and rules.
So all the other countries in the world get together and vote to put Iraq under controll... and they do so... via the "gulf war" and the resolutions and restrictions which followed.
In such a democratic system, gives stability to the neighborhood because each neighbors knows that there are laws and rules that they all obided, and disbrutes between neighbors is settled not by "Might makes right", but by a system of laws that allows all issues to be considered using a "due process".
However, in this "lawful" system is a neighbor who is very powerful, very strong willed, arrogant, self righteous, professes democratic ideas, however, always wants their way, and uses their "Might", "Money", and coercines (overt and covert) to get their way.... and this country has done every evil that any other country has done... (slavery, oppressing women and children, racism, used WMD on their population [LSD, Nukes in Arizon and New Mexico, chemical warfare testing in Aberdeen, genicide [American Indians])... This neighbors initials are "USA" United States of Ice Holes.
So this USA goes to the democratic UN and says the neighbor Iraq is doing illegal things - we have no proof... but our spies tell us they are....
And there is a democratic vote to take action... and the due process says that there is no sufficient evidence that Iraq is doing anything wrong.
But the USA decides to be a vigilante... and take the "law" into their own hands... and guess what? there still is no evidence....
Would be nice if America were run by Vigilanties... then Might would make right... since the Majority of the people didn't vote for him... that would be the Majority of the people in the Right.
I would love to burn down some right wing zealots houses.... starting with the White House.... because the occupant of that house... has wiped his prettythang with the US constitution and brought disgrace to this country with his pompous arrogance.
