Imagine that the police power was wielded entirely on a volunteer basis. Police officers benefit greatly by lawfulness, don’t they? Just as other citizens do.
Now read this defense of the “liberal international order” by Kevin Sullivan at RealClearWorld.
We don’t rely on the public-spirited voluntarism of police officers. We pay them and they retain a legal monopoly on the use of force. Unless those were the rules they would be police officers.
I suspect that’s the way most Americans see things. There needs to be more in the “liberal international order” for more Americans for them to continue to embrace it wholeheartedly.
Now can you imagine the rest of the world accepting that sort of international order? Me, neither.
