Normally I do not talk of politics in real life, and in fact, I avoid it, but yesterday a friend of mine asked me what the UN has ever done for the US and I honestly couldn't think of a thing. I could think of many things we have used it for to push our influence, but nothing that really helped the US. I always have an answer to everything, but in that instance I had nothing, and since that was his goal of course he smiled when I came up with a blank. Damn, that one is hard, and I still can't think of anything to use to answer the question. It completely stumps me on what it has done for the US. :
I think it defies the spirit of this country to use our military as a world police. This country was never designed to be the world leader militarily. In fact, classical liberal philosophy doesn't even endorse a military, but a militia of free men. The reason for this was that classical liberalism was a philosophy of peace; a philosophy against war; a philosophy that endorsed the militia with the idea that it would cause men to only want to defend their homes and their communities. It was an attempt at non-interventionism; a country interested only in defending their lives and borders. An idea that while proven to fail, should have never left us entirely. We became as a country what classical liberals hated militarily and wanted no part of. We became a country that was interested in central power, and not the power of the people as they so endorsed. It is a shame that we have became the very thing they hated, the very thing they were fighting against, the very thing they died to get free of. I am ashamed of what the US, and my fight is to turn it back into what it was meant to be, and what will make the people free.
We were never meant to be like Europe and we never went out to gain your approval, and we shouldn't be doing it now.