The problem has always been that the UN could NEVER work. It, like communism, is predicated on an ideal that is pure fiction, the ability of humans to blithely submit their own interests to the unrestrained will of an elite.

In the USSR it was the “New Communist Man”. A perfectly altruistic sort that would gladly work his ass off while everyone else sat on theirs.

The UN was predicated on the same behavior afflicting countries. That countries would all willingly ignore their own interests and ideals for the “greater good” as defined by a self appointed elite.

Wasn’t going to happen 60 years ago and ain’t going to happen now. Anyone who believed it then was just as much of an idealistic fool as anyone who believes it now. (well after 60 years of evidence I guess today’s believers are bigger fools)

I thought I cared, too, and that perhaps the organization could be reformed. Now, however,I doubt it. I think the UN as it was intended to be is dead, and what stands now at Turtle Bay is some rotted edifice waiting to collapse. Who’s to say we shouldn’t give it one final shove?

Honestly, I think Bush’s ad hoc coalitions (as in Iraq and the tsunami relief effort) is a much more efficient way to go about things. That, and perhaps forming a League of Liberal Democracies.

My natural reaction to the various scandals is “do away with the damn thing” but I know some of what they do is valuable and if we could get a clear picture of what they do, we could more easily decide what they’re worth.

ìOur country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong.î

GK Chesterson’s reply to Decatur also applies to those who seek to improve the UN by exposing the problems:

“‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”

The first step necessary to fix any problem is to acknowledge it exists.

I am, however, an enemy of the United Nations. One doesn’t need to be another organizational specialist like the late Peter Drucker to realize that the present incarnation of a grand vision is beyond saving. At best, we can only hope to marginalize Kofi Annanís band of fools. The UN was doomed from the very beginning when the evil Soviet Union was given such a dominant role. It was inevitably downhill after that.