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If you take every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives
away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they
cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty.
—The Urantia Papers
Long before we detonated Little Boy and Fat Man on Japan, The United States of America had willingly volunteered for the leadership role of responsibility for preserving what passes for peace in the world. There are numerous examples of our beneficent volunteerism, often manifested as unilateral (and unwelcome) enforcement of American "values" visited upon other so-called "sovereign" nations, although some were not only welcomed, but were essential to returning the planet to some relative level of peace and prosperity.
Although you've probably tucked it into some little-used box in your memory bank, the execution of Osama bin Laden was one of our more recent welcomed unilateral acts. And it will forever be associated with the current new World Sheriff, Barack Obama.