More to the point, it did not bode well for a supposedly democratizing project to reject democratic processes at the UN. The US had made it clear that it would abide by only one outcome at the UN – a principle under which no democratic body can operate, for to insist that a decision must accord with the wishes of one member is dictatorship. Subsequent events have shown how difficult it is – even for the strongest country in the world – to impose a stable democratic regime.
更为重要的是，一个据称为促进民主的工程却在联合国拒绝民主进程。这并非吉兆。美国早就表明，它只会遵守联合国作出的一项决议。坚持联合国的决定必须符合某一成员国的愿望是专制主义行为，没有一个民主机构可以在这一原则下运作。随后的事件表明，即使是全球最强大的国家也很难硬性建立一个稳定的民主政权。