Ah yes, Uncle Sam's lackey the UN.
As if the Security Council was some spoil of the Cold War or something or -- just because Bill and Hillary are mere resident scourges, along with the UN, in the State of New York -- the UN is now a Good Thing ... a Partner, perhaps, in the War on Terror.
Using a matter-of-fact observation from some Former Soviet Communist who brokered our pact for Afghanistan with Pickering in August 2000, the lead itself makes crystal clear that this is (the Body, the "Human Face" Nexus) of World Revolution at work and yet we beat our chests. GO UN!! GO UN!! GO UN!!
No more pissing-on-the-UN gifs around here, baby. They're on our side now. Do what we tell 'em, when we tell 'em whether the World -- and their soon-to-be softened brains -- likes it or not. Because, evidently ... as Right and as Moral and as Justified as we are, the US cannot make its case to the world and must needs rely on the Professional Opinion Makers at the UN who've done such a job on us to help us.
This is precisely the thing that so appalled and astonished me when Jeane Kirkpatrick spoke at CPAC this year. Indeed, Uncle Bill, I was shocked, for I'd heard her two years prior, under Clinton, decrying precisely the World State's "war time" undermining of national sovereignty she now supports in earnest. Complete 180 on the UN because ... this time, for a change ... they were serving our purposes.
What does that say about our purposes when the UN's pleased to be serving Same ... "softening up world Opinion" no less?
This is your brain ... this is your brain on Pragmatism.
If Pragmatism hadn't existed (and it didn't) they'd have had to invent it (and they did) so the West would get a buzz of Esteem and Empowerment in making -- and cheering -- the almighty Choices it rationalized relative to its own destruction.