It's time to send the UN packing.
I know a lot of folks here would have us wash our hands of any such organizations forever, but here's what I would propose: the USA and Japan should jointly agree to withdraw from the UN and take the nearly 50% portion of the UN budget to announce the founding a new, bilateral international aid organization that will be founded on rationally defensible principles, including promotion of private enterprise and non-governmental solutions to problems in the "developing world" (or not-developing world as it might better be called). We will only allow new 'members' to our new organization who agree to contribute their reasonable share (no more freeloaders!!) and who agree to the organization's principles and by-laws, which will promote liberty, democracy, free enterprise, and the greatest economic/political principles the world has ever known. Why waste any more of our time and resources trying to influence the corrupt and pathetic UN? Let all those governments who are so addicted to it PAY for it, and we will do something better with the money contributed by the USA and Japan (if only we can get Japan to go along with a better course of action). In time this new organization would become the principal entity worthy of respect on the international stage, but we'd have to make sure it would not allow membership to the moonbat countries that currently dominate too much of the UN's activities.........
Trouble is, Bolton and Bush don't know if they are coming or going with the UN... they should grow a spine and kick the UN out.. or figure out a way to work with/around them. But they and the other Repubs, will piss and moan and shout... and not do anything, and ultimately go along.
The Repubs now have all the power... why aren't they using it?
Ditto. Why are we even messing around trying to reform that corrupt institution?