"Perhaps we should judge a government by it's ACTIONS, like attacking another country, or refusing to act in a manner acceptable to the resat of the world."

I think that's a great idea. Let's start with the USA as led by Bush Jr.

The Bush Administration (BA) attacked and invaded Iraq based on lies and without the sanction of the UN.

The BA condones the torture of prisoners, the forced removal of people from any given country, detentention without trial and no access to legal aid, the mass killing of innocent civilians, the use and proliferation of WMD's, 'baiting', the use of cluster munitions and other anti-personnel weapons that kill and maim indiscriminately etc etc.

This is not acceptable to the rest of the world - if you haven't got that message by now, then I suspect there's no hope.

Judge any country by it's actions these days and I'm sure all our governments will look like the morally corrupt corporate whores they have become, but I think if you're trying to defend the madam of the brothel you might want to think through comments like the one above before you post them.