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One good thing that's come from this war is that the United Nations is now finished as a significant political influence. 12 years ago I remember agreeing with George Bush I about the need to get "international" consensus. Now I see that George Bush II is right about it - that we can expect a much better outcome from a US-led peace than from the dictators and second-raters that pick their bums at the UN. I don't agree with taxation and regulation and big armies, but better a world led by the country with the best and fairest real world political system than a tea party of national sovereigntists protecting their personal priviledge. Those of us whose goal is personal sovereignty in a global borderless free market have to support the good old USA on this one. This is not to say that we can't improve on the 18th century limited democracy that happens still be the most successful system in history, but let's not bury our heads in the sand and hope that Saddam will just quietly slip away. Let's hope that if and when the US falls, that it falls to rich clever free traders rather than Roman-style, fiddle in hand, to vandals.
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