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The inability of the international community to end the human rights catastrophe in Gaza and Lebanon is a sign that the global order is broken.
I heard a good interview on the Ezra Klein show that pointed out that the UN Security Council veto is a proxy for using nuclear weapons. We'd all rather that superpowers use the veto than that they use nuclear bombs to enforce their will.
That said, human rights should be the highest priority for all countries in the world. It's too bad they're not for us in the USA, and it's too bad that we are willing to defy the world on that question. Qualified yes.
@evan After WWI, the League of Nations was set up to enhance international co-operation and to make the world more peaceful. But all countries were equal in the League, and consequently the Great Powers ignored it when they found it inconvenient.
The creators of the UN wanted to avoid the new Great Powers (the victors of WWII) by-passing the organisation, so they were given special rights as permanent members of the Security Council.