Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

Now about your "go to war" part...

Occasionally it is necessary to go to war against dictators and aggressors, for international law enforcement, for similar reasons to why a city needs a police force. A city without police wouldn't be a very nice place to live, would it? Well, it's the same on the international stage --a world that tolerates dictators and aggressors isn't nice either.

Should the US be the policeman of the world?

Ideally, no. That should be the job of the UN. But, if the UN is taken over by a bunch of spineless jellyfish and collaborators, and years of diplomacy fails, there may not be much of an alternative..