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Some may dismiss the administration declaring the UN to be “in danger of becoming irrelevant” as mere rhetoric. It is actually a very accurate description. And the qualification of the term with the clause, “in danger of becoming” is actually quite generous. It is normal for humans to enter into societies for their mutual benefit. When these societies form, one of the institutions that usually develops is a body in which they vest their powers of retaliatory power, to deter members from violating the rights of others. Those rights include freedom from force, fraud, or coercion against person or property. The institutions in which retaliatory powers are vested may be a government, a professional society’s committee, or, in this case, a council. The United Nations has various councils that govern a variety of issues. The problem is that the councils have no power, no objective rules by which they act, and they are too oriented on super-majority democratic decisions. It is because of the super-majority tendency as well as cultural and societal differences among member nations that no objective rules can be agreed upon. It is because of a lack of objective rules that member nations insist on super-majority decision and refuse to cede too much power to the councils. This is an ideal arrangement, in my opinion. When a council finally decides upon some objective rules by which actions will be guided, such as UN Resolution 1441, the council will not enforce its own resolution. What recourse does the United States have? It fought and won a just war with Iraq, to liberate Kuwait from an aggressive invasion and occupation launched by Iraq. An agreement was made between the US, UN, and Iraq. As a penalty for your aggression, disarm - or we will use force to make you disarm. Iraq reneged on that agreement and the related agreements that followed. The UN will not enforce the agreement or even condone the US enforcing the agreement. So, what is the US to do, when an objective body will not attempt to enforce an objective resolution? It must enforce the resolution, itself, because the UN will not. Hopefully, if we are forced to go without UN approval, we withdraw our membership from the UN. The UN, like many things, is nothing without the US. It is time that the other nations get slapped in the face with this harsh reality.