It is the nearest thing that exists to a world policeman, but it must operate without a world police force, a world judiciary or a proper world system of law.

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Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman.

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He ended America's role as the world's policeman, instead making this country a leader of concerted action with other nations.

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Like when he commits the Western alliance to be the world's policeman, as he does at the film's outset, without alerting his national security advisor beforehand.

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Before Bush-Cheney, even if the rest of the world often chafed at America's acting like the world's policeman, most viewed America's actions as based on morality and a transparent rule of law.

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If he does, the West will simply have to grit its teeth, in Kosovo perhaps more doggedly even than in Bosnia, and prepare itself for a long haul as an unloved policeman in a wretched part of the world.

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