It occurs to me that the "Project for the New American Century" people's well-known despite for international law and treaties and the UN is At first sight it is absolutely nothing but "might is right". They are the strongest, they will do what they want to do and not let anyone stop them. That want they want to do is much more congenial to us than what some other people might want to do doesn't change the nature of it. They might well want to use their power benevolently - even liberally - but they will be the ones to choose how to use it. They recognise that the USA is the strongest military power in the world, at least for the next few decades, and they want to use those few decades either to prevent anyone else catching up with them or (because they aren't so stupid as to believe they can get away with that for ever) to remake the rest of the world in their own image so that if Europe, China, or India ever again draw close to them in economic or military power we will have been conditioned to behave in American ways. They despise the idea of international law or treaty obligations. They think of the world as made up of states and governments rather than of individual people, and they also think that relations between states must necessarily be hierarchical, rather than consensual or by agreement. They have a huge emotional desire for stability and predictability and think that that is best secured by concentrated power rather than dispersed power, by dictation rather than negotiation, by unilateral action rather than by mutual agreement. They want to simplify the world in order to do it good. They are, in fact, in international affairs, taking up a position very similar to the old discredited state socialists in national affairs. Just as the apparently benevolent Fabians and the obviously vicious Soviets saw that state power was overwhelmingly supreme within a nation state, and wished to simplify and organise and dictate relationships between peoples and communities within the nation, in order to better control the nation for its own good; and therefore preferred a strong central government and top-down rule by civil servants and bureaucrats to the messy business of democracy, markets, and mutual aid; so the PNAC sees US power as overwhelmingly supreme between nation states, and prefers an international system based on the one-to-many relations of the USA with everybody else to the messy business of many-to-many relations of treaties and international law.