Face facts. The U.N. doesn't matter unless the United States says it does.

     It seems to be a popular assessment of the far-left to condemn G.W.Bush as a "U.N. War criminal". What a hopelessly ridiculous phrase! Do they really believe the garbage they put out into the press? Surely not.

     Nevertheless, "the war criminal" delivered a speech on the floor of the U.N. Why didn't they put him in jail if he's a criminal? Why didn't they arrest him? That's easy.

The U.N.'s power is directly derived from the United States. Period. Their money is by and large U.S. money. Their troops are overwhelmingly U.S. troops.

     Now there are plenty of intelligent arguments against America going into Iraq. There were plenty of them in 1991 when daddy Bush went in. Heck, some of those arguments are my own. But at the end of the day, we did go to Iraq, and yes, now that we are there we have to keep them from becoming a state of chaos sitting on the 2nd largest oil reserve in the world. Debating yesterday furthers no cause. Argue yesterday with your vote in 2004. We went in, and there was nothing the U.N. could do about it. As it should be.

     We do not have to listen to the U.N. Many of those countries are tyrannical despotisms that treat their citizens like slaves and hate the United States anyway (see Libya, current head of the human rights council). America will never adhere to their ridiculous regulations when they contradict our Constitution. They will have to change to accomodate us. To argue whether or not we should have gone into Iraq is one thing, but to defend your position by invoking the wishes of the U.N. is irrelevant. The U.N. is irrelevant. It is there only so countries like France can feel important. Harsh? Maybe. But the bottom line is that the United States is the greatest, richest, most advanced nation in the world. Why should we listen to these other world leaders tell us how to run our government when they lead nations that haven't achieved even a tiny fraction of our success? That's a bit like Motorhead telling Mozart how to write music isn't it? They should listen to us. We are the ones that seem to have the best, most workable plan after all. But whether they listen to us or not, it is certainly not in our best interests to emulate them via their insane 'regulations", or let their skewed perceptions of what government should be affect us.

     So let's debate whether or not our intervention in Iraq is Constitutional. Let's debate whether or not it is truly in the best interests of this country. But let us not attempt to apply any sort of relevance to what the U.N. thinks. Their opinion of America is secondary to the preservation of America as America.

     As a nation, we have far exceeded our necessity when we made the decision to use our military might to police the world. This is not a "world nation". The world does not understand America. The world does not appreciate America. We cannot force upon them what we freely chose to accept in 1776. They must, as we did, discover for themselves the path to national success. We should further this effort by example, not military interventionalism. It costs too much and it makes countless enemies out of those that would otherwise not care one way or the other about us. It causes people to crash planes into buildings.

     If we were the peaceful country that our founders intended us to be, the various peoples of this world could see the advantages of liberty and free government. They would revolt against their various tyrannies, and we could establish relations with countries based on true mutual understanding instead of being forced to discuss our matters of policy with the likes of Libya and China. We cannot continue to be the world nanny,  making sure everyone is treated nice and fair, and making sure the whole world is a happy shiny place. Its not a happy shiny place and its not going to be. Nothing we do is going to stop that. We cannot force people to accept freedom, but we can influence them by example. If we continue to just bomb countries and undermine the natural evolution of their countries just because they do not agree with us or will not submit to our demands, the people only see a bully-tyrant that wants to rule the world.

     It is obvious that we have incurred all kinds of national security threats as a result of years of interventionalism. For this reason, it would not be at all wise to just suddenly one day say "OK, we're bringing our troops home! No more inteverntionalism!" The end result would be hordes of people just waiting for the chance to blow themselves up in the presence of as many Americans as possible. But we can make a start. We can begin by not further accelerating the problem by keeping our government's business out of other governments' business. Help where we can? Sure. Assist those attempting Revolution against a tyrannical ruler? Sure. But it is up the people of that country to organize and fight their revolution. It is not our job to go in there, decide revolution is necessary, and then recruit revolutionaries that will fight. But the U.N. thinks it is our job.

Yet another reason to get out.