Hmm.. I suppose America became the World Police(tm) when we realized the "United" Nations was absoluely worthless and both uncapable and unwilling to do the job. I believe Saddam violated 19 resolutions and the UN did NOTHING. They have a horrible track-record and I suppose someone has to do the job the neglect.
Well, RRS, the answer to your second question is pretty easy: Bush wasn't president then!
And I think we failed miseralby on the matter of stopping the USSR from spreading Communism. Remember, for most of the cold war, the Congress was anti-war-liberal and we had appeasment-focused presidents like Jimmy Carter. And we were scared all to crap of starting a Nuclear War with them. The fact that Reagan did something is part of why I think he is the greatest president of the 20th Century. Thanks to him, I didnt' grow up in a world fearing Nuclear War.
And by calling Mohammed a pedophile, I wasn't intending to demean Muslims. I don't hate Muslims individually or collectively. But I hate Islam. I hate what it does to people. I hate how it treats females. I hate how they blow up their kids to kill others for some perverted sense of holy justice.
By "pedophile" I was pointing out something that isn't often pointed out.
Mohammed's youngest wife (her name escapes me) was engaged to her when he was forty. She was six. They "consumated" the marriage when she was nine. 
I'm not making this up, but I'll let you be the judge of what I said. My mind is as wide as it needs to be, Motti. Perhaps you should try and narrow yours down some!
