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Many conspiratorialists condemn the UN but they don’t offer an alternative model, and you can’t beat something with nothing. Needless to say, such criticism largely goes nowhere. The Biblical model to international relations is one of federalism, not centralization. The core problem with the United Nations system is that it is one of centralization – the atheistic/humanistic model of international socialism. The end of the UN is not the rapture. Christians must be busy preparing to offer leadership towards a federalist alternative. Seize the day. Dr. Gary North wrote an excellent book on this subject many years ago: “Healer of the Nations”.
The Washinton Post – Sept. 19, 2010
U.N. is at a critical juncture as it struggles to assert its relevance
By Colum Lynch
UNITED NATIONS – President Obama will travel this week to New York for the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders to reaffirm America’s commitment to a “new era of multilateralism.” He will arrive, however, at a time when the United Nations, the world’s principal multilateral institution, is struggling to remain relevant on the world stage. From nuclear diplomacy with North Korea to economic negotiations among the Group of 20 nations and peace talks in the Middle East, U.N. diplomats have frequently been reduced to bit players over the past year. Even on climate change, an issue on which the United Nations has tried to stake its claim, the world body has failed to show much progress. Highly anticipated negotiations in Copenhagen ran aground in December. For an institution with its share of proud chapters, these are tough times.
“A lot of the juice is outside the United Nations,” said Bruce Jones, the director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. “The old days when the U.S. and the Europeans could stitch things up at the United Nations are over, and we haven’t yet seen the emergence of a new platform for action or a consortium for action at the U.N.” Jones noted that the growing assertiveness of emerging powers – particularly China – has made it harder to reach international compromise. … Still, during the past two years, the U.N. Security Council has made fewer decisions than at any time since the end of the Cold War, according to a report by the Security Council Report, an independent, nonprofit group. …
Edward Luck, a historian at the International Peace Institute who acts as an informal adviser to Ban, said the U.N. effort to find its way has been complicated by a “geopolitical strategic situation that is very, very murky.” “The U.N. reflects that,” he said. “The world is muddling through as the U.N. is muddling through.” Luck said that situation will only become more difficult in the coming year as key emerging powers – including Brazil, India, South Africa, Turkey and Nigeria – get their turns as members on the Security Council for two-year terms. Brazil and Turkey have used their position to challenge the existing order on the council, mounting a campaign, for instance, to thwart the U.S. push for sanctions on Iran.
But Luck said he was confident that the United Nations would remain a key player, noting that there are no other international institutions with the capacity to implement their policies on the ground or with the same kind of political legitimacy that comes with being an organization with universal membership. “The U.N. is not the sun of the international solar system; everything doesn’t revolve around it,” he said. “But it is the final reference point on most issues, which have to come to the U.N. for legitimacy.”
Look it just needs to go away … it is a socialist org. and promotes socialism and in the end cost the US too much to retain..a usless org.