My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
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Noam Chomsky
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.