Our 95-year effort to create a Drug Free America by enforcing world-wide prohibition has twisted our foreign policy out of shape all over the globe and the nightmare in Afghanistan is just the latest manifestation.
It has enforced world trade law much more vigorously than did its predecessor, the GATT.
The banana dispute has exposed weaknesses that cast doubt on how effectively it can enforce world trade rules.
Such a refusal to accept the WTO's writ, combined with the EU's defiance over bananas and beef, could fatally damage the WTO's ability to enforce world trade rules.
And in 1994 it passed the Uruguay round of the GATT, a huge multilateral trade-liberalisation package that gave birth to the WTO, complete with a mandate to enforce world trade laws.
This group believes that the pressing thing at the moment is to prevent war, and it assumes that it is possible to set up a world authority stronger than any single nation, to enforce world law directly on the individual.
Its mandate is to enforce world-trade rules and thus hold the line against protectionism.
But through being in Europe we could stop tax avoidance, introduce a financial transactions tax, hold corporations legally responsible for their human rights abuses, enforce world-leading climate targets, develop new forms of public ownership of key resources.
"That said something about who was enforcing the world's demands".
Marseille wrote a paper entitled A Method to Enforce World Peace, which he sent to Einstein and the philosopher, journalist and political campaigner Bertrand Russell.
Many of those commentators who argued for the doctrine of a United States-enforced world order, including Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol and Andrew Sullivan, said Iraqis would welcome allied troops as liberators.
