| Sumario: | Foreign-policy bigwigs on both the left and the right are calling for the establishment of a new League of Democracies," but their proposal is flawed. The league would be a free-standing organization separate from and perhaps eventually usurping the UN. Proposals for the role of the institution keeps broadening, however. Some envision a reliable means of gaining international approval for America's foreign interventions, and others opine that the league would not only take responsibility for global peace and security but also bring pressure to bear on autocratic regimes, impose sanctions on Iran, relieve suffering in Darfur, and address such crises as HIV/AIDS and global warming. Nonetheless, plans for such a league rest on the false assumption that democracies intrinsically work well together or that anybody besides the United States thinks that it is a good idea.
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