[goldstategop]

We can save the humanitarian and relief related functions of the UN. However I agree with Richard Perle that as a political instrument for world security, the UN has proved itself to be irrelevant. For the likes of me, I can't see why we would crawl back to Dominique Villain and Vladmimir Puke to obtain their permission to defend ourselves. We'll definitely need help in reconstructing Iraq after the war. Heaven forbid we should allow countries who contributed nothing to its liberation to have any say in its future. And no American government will look to a vote on the UN next time before exercising its sovereign authority to defend itself from any and all emerging threats in the world.

[Mizzoutiger]

Perhaps we don't even really need the U.N.'s humanitarian and relief functions. Do you think the money we spend in the U.N. could be better utilized in NGOs like the Red Cross and others?