>As for being bullies, well, in some ways I
>think we should be more bullish, some ways less, and in a few
>others I'll put it like this. You can only stand in your own
>yard, minding your own business while your neighbor throws
>rocks at you before you hop the white picket fence and kick
>his teeth in.

A better analogy in my view would be:
Somebody has thrown a stone into one of your windows at night. You don't know who was it but your neighbor (with that threatening huge mustache) has a lot of stones in his garden and he is actually sitting there polishing fist sized stones at his garden table. There are a few rumors about that guy that you don't like so you now decide its time to help out the neighborhood. You jumping over the fence, hit that guy with your bat six or seven times ,set his house on fire and take his new lawnmower with you for good measure. He doesn't need one for his rock garden anyway...

Sorry but I think the last thing we need on this planet is someone who plays "world police", punishing whoever he seems fit.