While all that discussion is fascinating, let's cut directly to the chase: Unilateral International authority is not credible. Only governance and authority that has been properly sanctified in good faith through the shared International body of the United Nations is legitimate. As the United States has sadly demonstrated, it is not capable of credibly wielding unilateral International power for the greater good. All we can hope to do now is sit down, be humble, end militaristic fascism and the exploitative hegemonic sociopathic excesses of capitalism, and, finally, begin to support unwaveringly and exclusively the primacy of the world's credible humanist forces for good and progress and freedom.