Comment Re:I'd care... (Score 1) 56
True, and that system does work pretty well.
Of course, it's not the whole story. Vietnam is far from the only time the US got up to some unilateral shenanigans (i.e. bypassing all that nice world institutions stuff).
The US has a long and copious history of invading other countries, destabilizing governments (democratic and otherwise) and assination plots of everyone up to and including heads of state, and there's no shortage of it after WWII.
The outright annexation did stop post WWII. Well, except for a bunch of Pacific islands, which was done with UN endorsement.