Jo

By your logic, should the US government be closed down because of its miserable incompetence in dealing with Katrina /N Orleans? Or because of the billions of US$ lost to faud, corruption and mismagement in the US controled CPA in Iraq?

Though I do not, I could concede that the US and the UN tolerate corruption and crime equivalently, and your point would still be fallacious.

In short, two wrongs do not make a right. The fact that the US may be “bad” doesn’t justify the UN being equally bad, and you have created a classic tu Quoque fallacy.

Sure the UN and the US government has [sic] corrupt and incompetent people in their midsts; but presumably you do recognise that there are many branches of the US Gov. and UN that do great work notwithstanding corruption elsewhere in the organisation….

The issue isn’t whether individuals of both organizations — the US and the UN — engage in criminal acts.

The issue is: i) whether or not both have the power to enforce their edicts; and ii) whether or not they exercise that power.

The UN does not have the power to bring wrongdoers to justice and to punish them, and therefore it’s authority is ineffectual. (They cannot exercise power they do not possess.)

The US has the power to bring wrongdoers to justice and the US exercises it.

Your comparison of the UN to the US is inapt, and I’m still left wondering what argument one could muster to justify the huge amount of funding the US contributes to the UN each year. (“The US is bad too” doesn’t compel me . . .)

(Unlike the UN, the US has a system that is self-correcting, a system that can improve itself based on elections, executive orders, and the judiciary.)

Brian