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The UN will have no funding problems if we run and and try to bury our head in the sand. After we exit and the UN becomes more and more anti-American, the money will pour in and the diplomatic assaults on us will be coordinated with the terrorist assaults and it will then cost us much more in more ways than one. Once we make that mistake, we won't be able to reverse it.

You are making that based on the assumption that we would be the only ones to leave. I believe if we leave, other nations such as Britan would follow. Additionally, they would no longer be in OUR country with all the "diplomatic ammunity" they run around with now.

You are right about one thing, they could then come out of the closet and show themselves as the terrorist supporting organization they really are.

Personally, I don't think it will actually come to us leaving, the threat of it, along with our allies, will mean a major coup and overhaul in the way it is run now....no more "libya in charge of the summit on terrorism" or "iraq in charge of the summit on human rights"...and for God's sake...put a REAL president in there.

Changes start with resistance...however we must be prepared to back the threat we make. I do not believe we should be allowed to have fear guide us in our decision, with that kind of thinking, my FRiend, we would burry our heads in the sand and let them rule us always.

Paying people to be our friends will never work (maybe in the short term, I would give you that). I do think most of the UN funding would be severely affected by our exit. When I worked in the State Department as part of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM), I found that most of the 900 million dollars we gave in FY 2000 was "leverage" money, we would give 12 million to the UNHCR as seed, so that the EU would give 6 million, and other countries would give money because we did. If we stopped, I think a lot of that funding would also stop. Our exit would affect more than the obligatory 25% we give now.