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Originally posted by Silver Cheetah:
I would like to see us take the first steps towards a peace keeping body WITH TEETH. The goal would be, eventually, to eliminate non human rights respecting regimes, and replace them with democratically elected leaders, or at the least, (in those parts of the world where democratic elections just would not be acceptable) leaders prepared to respect certain basic and fundamental human rights (including the right of women not to be treated as 'property' rather than individuals with rights.)
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I understand your points, SC. A real international police force, enforcing agreed upon international laws regarding human rights and the like, might give more of an appearance of justice than does action by a powerful individual state like the US.
However, what you are talking is of course a step towards real world government.
There is a lot of resistance to such notions from people afraid of giving up local autonomy to a far away world body -- and with good reason.