As I said on my own blog, Baby Hugo and Mad Jad can get away with their antics because they know quite well that Bush and America are not devils: if they were, Baby Hugo and Mad Jad would be locked up in Guantanamo, obedient puppets would be running their countries, and nothing uttered in the United Dictators General Assembly would possibly be objectionable in any way to said devils.

Too bad we can’t get rid of the UN entirely: it lets dwarf countries punch out of their weight and allows their leaders to get undue attention from the chattering classes.

That said, I don’t see how we can get out of it — we need to be in so we can throw a spanner in the works occasionally and prevent it from doing anything too stupid. But in general, too bad the thing can’t collapse of its own weight – it’s as bad or worse an idea and institution than the League of Nations.