Russia, meanwhile, is trying to reclaim a seat at the global decision-making table — beyond the use of its veto power at the Security Council — and to end Washington's tendency to enforce regime change by fiat.
He also turned a humanitarian mission in Somalia into nation-building on the cheap, threatened a military invasion of Haiti to enforce regime change, launched a lengthy occupation of the faux state of Bosnia, and expanded NATO toward Russia.
He is quick to condemn punishment-based policies that further isolate authoritarian regimes, especially economic sanctions, and Iraq-style enforced regime changes.
In America, he argues, a robustly enforced regime of freedom of speech provides a basis for people of many religions and none to live together.
Americans lean 33%-27 33%-27st sending in troops "to protect civilians", and are more decisively against directly enforcing regime change, splitting 42%-16% against.
For western governments struggling to justify why Libya should be singled out for enforced regime change, the issue has become a godsend.
He was extremely critical of the U.S. invasion in Iraq, rightly warned of chaos after an externally enforced regime change there, and gained a reputation for saying no to the United States.
Convinced that the church is no less endangered today by heretics within and enemies without, they would like to see "Pascendi" resurrected and a strictly enforced regime of oaths, censorship and denunciations restored.
United Nations and French officials, wary of being seen as exceeding their mandate by enforcing regime change, insisted that their actions were solely intended to protect civilians, entirely independent of the final push to capture Mr. Gbagbo by his rival's forces.
Wan Chengcai, a research fellow at the Centre for World Affairs Studies of Xinhua News Agency, tells Global Times that China and Russia want a negotiated settlement to the Syrian crisis to stop "external powers" enforcing regime change and repeating the "tragedy of Libya".
Apartheid, the legally enforced regime of racial separation, subjected more than 80% of the country's population to systematic oppression for four decades.
