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The UN in its current form does not work, but there is no better alternative.

Let's get right to it. As you say: it doesn't work. So, what is the point? I have a design for a car engine: it's a block of wood. It doesn't work either.

Also, as you say: there is no better alternative.

What you just told us is that you believe that there is no international political organization that can do any good. There is no structure or bylaws that can provide a framework for international cooperation. That's what you just said.

And I agree with you. I choose National Sovreignty.

The UN in its current form does not work, but there is no better alternative.

I disagree. The better alternative is Nothing. Remaining with a system that is broken only makes things worse. As the UN has no mechanism to reform itself, it will never improve but only get worse.

The days of the UN's usefulness are long gone.

I was replying to your post #7,in which you stated you believe the UN to be a good institution. I could have made that clearer.

The UN won't work in this form or in any other. The rest of the world does not have the innate goodness that is required to selflessly help others. This has been a singular characteristic of the American people more than any other people, the desire to share of God's bounty with those less fortunate.No other nation has demonstrated that to the same proportion as this country.

We had hoped that Europe, especially France and Germany, would have learned from our example in the last 60 years, rebuilding both of those nations. But they chose to stab us in the back; thus I have no use for either of them. Those in Europe will make the bed of their own choosing. And it will not be pretty.

Sorry if I sound jaded. The socialist European countries could develop that way solely because we Americans paid for your defense. Now that we need the world's help, we see who our true friends really are. And surprisingly enough, it isn't those who we've helped the most.

The UN in its current form does not work, but there is no better alternative

The United Nations cannot exist without the United States. It is too heavily reliant on its money, its military and its knowledge. However the United Nations has become intensely hostile towards the United States and its interests, in spite of itself.

For example, the true basis for the Iraq war is to protect the strength of United Nations resolutions, but oddly enough the United Nations is against it - simply because the United States is trying to protect itself from further terrorist attacks.

Other actions that are hostile to the United States include Kyoto, World Court, promotion of abortion, exclusion from certain committees, attempts at "one-world" governance that cut into our sovereignty, etc.

I view the UN as a hostile, unappreciative recipient of welfare. It must therefore be disbanded.