Is world better without Saddam?

[abaris]

but if we, in the US, can't help or shouldn't help when we are in such a position...I weep for the globe.   Who can or should help, who is in a better position to do so?

There's a reason why Roosevelt and Truman were behind establishing the UN. There's also a reason why Justice Jackson argued as he did at the Nuremberg tribunals. The reasons being the same - so that no country or person, unilaterally can decide to go to war again.

Utopia, I know. But an American Utopia. An ideal I admire, as opposed to American policy in the last two decades. At the very least. I'm really hard pressed to name even a handfull of American interventions after WWII I consider entirely justified and being aimed at the greater good. Kosovo, maybe, though even that, living in the extended vicinity, is up for debate. Bosnia and maybe Afghanistan. But that's about it. Everything else was about interests. Political and/or economical.

The UN is in desperate need of reform. True. But it's still better than one country, one person even, if he or she manages to be backed by the houses, calling the shots. That's not the world I want to live in, and given the American political system of being dependent on corporate donations to get into office, neither should any American. Since they are ultimately the ones bleeding out on the battlefields for interest unknown.