[Carry_Okie]

The designers of the United Nations understood the dangers inherent in a "democratic" international body, and therefore left all effective power in the hands of the sovereign states themselves, or, in exceptional cases, in the hands of the Security Council.

That is a beyond charitable reading of history.

[SJackson]

That is a beyond charitable reading of history.

Yes, far, far beyond. Who do those sovereign states think they are, anyway.