The UN charter is not a treaty, it's merely a document much akin to our constitution. In fact, the UN charter is based almost solely on our constitution. We create the organization to give a voice to nations in an open political forum. We didn't create the UN as a check/balance organization for our own international affairs.

I could rant about the UN, the oil for food scandal, how they do not serve our interests and should be dissolved especially since we're the primary fundee. But the only fact that matters is UN Charter =\= treaty, and therefore doesn't not equate to law, and since the it's isn't a treaty, then it isn't law. And since it isn't law, our actions can't be illegal, because a)there's no law prohibiting our nation from making decisions we feel will protect our interests and b)as a sovereign nation we don't answer to any international authority, never have and never will.

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