I've never read A Theory of Justice, but a few years ago I read a short book by Rawls called The Law of Peoples, which is basically an attempt to apply his theo

I've never read A Theory of Justice, but a few years ago I read a short book by Rawls called The Law of Peoples, which is basically an attempt to apply his theory to international relations, and he suggests that if one country is governed by a state that clearly violates the international consensus of how to treat people then the other nations should get together, invade, overthrow that government and replace it with a new one. And it seems like...we tried that about ten years after the book came out, with not-such-great results. Seems like there should be a lesson in that, but I'm not quite sure what it is.