ASSERTING THE NONEXISTENT: Washington Times columnist Emmett Tyrrell on President Obama's invocation of the 'international community toward collective action' in Libya:

The world community is nonexistent. The world of nations and peoples shares no values, certainly no values that are difficult to enforce. Writing in the late 1940s, Max Ascoli, founder of the Reporter magazine and a leading liberal writer of the time, cautioned against mounting a policy based on an international longing for shared values. He claimed there were no world values, and there certainly was no world conscience. Rather, there are many cultures. Some are enlightened and humane. Others are primitive. Our president disdains American exceptionalism in pursuit of values and consciences that do not exist.

Imagining world peace doesn't require any effort; achieving it does.