So American states' rights is the antidote to what you see as the "problem" of the existence of the UN, Celtic Soul? Sorry, but I fail to see the relevance to this discussion of your logic and reason. You seem to making an attempt at arguing that international opinion is "the fault" of the UN. Is that right? Or that because much of the rest of the world still suffers under tyranny in weak states, that we should throw the UN out as being wholly irrelevant?

What a tremendous lack of compassion you seem to have for those human beings you invoke, who are suffering around the globe, while we argue semantics here. So if you were to rule the US, we would all retreat into the safe cocoon of states' rights with all our riches and power, and leave the rest of the world to the madness of tyrants?

Perhaps the wise words of Whitman will open your heart, if even just a crack, to the humanity beyond US borders...

"We have frequently printed the word DEMOCRACY. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. It is, in some sort, younger brother of another great and often-used word, NATURE, whose history also awaits unwritten."

                                       --Walt Whitman