To (some of) my lefty friends: this is why I hate the U.N. Oh yeah, don’t forget the brutal sanctions against Iraq (child death toll: 350,000-530,000) and the weapons inspections (which, the Bush administration frequently and correctly notes, provided the pretext for every bomb dropped on Iraq over the last thirteen years).
FAIR & BALANCED UPDATE: There are worse regimes than the U.N.–Mike Bloomberg’s comes to mind–but scale is important. Bloomberg’s radius of tyranny is small and circumscribed; the U.N.’s is enormous and creeping. Now substitute “Saddam Hussein” for Bloomberg and “U.S. government” for U.N. and you’ve got the gaping hole in liberventionist theory.