If it's born broke, don't fix it
Here's a letter, allegedly from UN employees, detailing just how FUBAR the UN is. It's pretty good until the end:
Ask your Senators and Congressman to create a NEW organization that can lead the world well into the 21st Century...All Democrats and all Republicans should be able to easily agree that if deep, deep reform is not possible, the UN should be closed and a new organization should be created to truly make the world a better place.
You can hardly blame a bunch of career public policy types for wanting to hold on to the dream, for thinking that their jobs actually matter. But it's in the nature of the UN as a quasi-world government that it will be corrupt. There's just no accountability. Most of the member states are themselves corrupt in varying degrees, and those who aren't, and have enough purse-power to have leverage (i.e., the US) are "too nice" (i.e., too easily cowed) to hurt the small (and corrupt) countries by curtting funds. For the UN to do its stated mission, it has to be free from government interference, which means it is also free from government oversight.
The League of Nations didn't work. The UN hasn't worked. What makes anyone think that the third time's the charm? Yanking every last dime is the least we should do; the real answer probably involves precision bombing of some NY real estate.
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