Gringoman,

The CPA was eventually repalced by an iraqi government. What would be the alternative if we disbanded the UN tomorrow? How would global health, education, law of the seas, peace keepingmissions, treaties, and other issues etc be managed?

The other issue is that outside of the USA, the UN is actually a well respected and often well liked organisation. I think it is more likely that ther US pull out of the UN and then the rest of the world would choose to keep it and work with it.

But lets also be honest, the UN is often the only entity that can challenge a super power, its perfectly natural therefore that the world’s current super power (US) is less than enthusiastic about the UN. Eg. the UN’s refusal to endorse the iraq war means that the 4 billion US per week cost over there is coming out of US tax payers pockets and not being covered by the rest of the world (during the first- UN supported Iraq war- 90% of the US military costs were covered by other countries).

If I was a US citizen id be annoyed about that!