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Sounds a completely flawed idea to me. The UN has more than its fair share of problems and issues, but it is surely worth trying to fix that rather than engaging in some fantasy type good guys international enforcer coalition that would have absolutely no international legitimacy other than the force of arms.
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what is international legitimacy?
it's an entirely made up and subjective concept. from my point of view i can't think what would be more legitimate than a league of democracies. the UN's own legitimacy is injured by the inclusion of dictatorships.
of course in the real world dictatorships need to be worked with, but let's not pretend that's a legitimising thing.
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BTW Fukuyama has changed his mind about the neo-cons. To go along with his apparent conversion to 20 years ago not actually being "the end of history" I would suggest that his judgement should not be taken particularly seriously.
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i'm not talking about fukuyama Al, i'm saying this guys book is a riposte / rebuke to fukuyama's infamous theory