So, time for a good old UN bashing topic. Let's have a good time with this one, yeah?

Since it's formation in 1948, the United Nations has embarked on 56 peacekeeping missions in 32 nations. The cost, 30 billion dollars, has been heavily paid for by the United States, approx. 32% of these funds come directly from the US taxpayer. These missions have cost the lives of approximatly 2,000 peacekeepers, 60 of which were Americans. However, dispite these losses, the UN has not even been able to prevent the atrocities they have sought to. For exampe, the United Nations sat idly by as almost 800,000 Rwandans were hacked to death in Rwanda (“ UN Admits Failure in Rwanda,” BBC News Online, December 16, 1999.). Another example is in Eritrea, the presence of peacekeepers has failed to end a conflict that has so far claimed 70,000 lives. Directly and indirectly, the UN is responsible for the deaths of over 1 million civilians worldwide.

The UN is influence by nations that do not share American/Western values on Freedom and tolerance, and has a heavily anti-American bias in it's rulings. For example, the overt anti-Americanism in the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) led the U.S. to withdraw its membership for twenty years, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has recommended that U.S. funding for UNESCO ($71.4 million) be withheld until the committee purges itself of this bias. Also, the US has been kicked off of the UN Human Rights commission, and replaced by Libya, an Islamic dictatorship with a history of human rights abuse. The Commission’s membership also includes Sudan, which practices human slavery; Cuba, which has been ranked by Human Rights Watch as one of the world’s most repressive regimes; and Zimbabwe, which practices openly racist policies and political repression.

In the months since it's removal from these committes, the US was forced by the UN to sit through a lecture on it's human rights abuses in Iraq and at home, dispite the fact that it ignores the abuses in the Sudan and Rwanda, to the point that the US delegation has walked out of the meeting in protest. One recent UN delegation called for the US to remove firearms ownership from it's constitution, and another singles out the US as the nation that should pay the most reparations for slavery (dispite the Fact that it was the Turks who origionally enslaved Africans, and the English, French, Spanish, and Portugese that brought them to America).

The UN is also anti-Free Market, and a major voice for Global Weath Redistribution. Its plan for accomplishing this includes the creation of a global tax commission and international income tax, which would be used to promote income equality between rich and poor member states. The General Secretariat has also called for worldwide tax harmonization, which would require pro-growth countries like the U.S., UK, and Australia to raise their tax rates to match the higher levels in social market states like France and Germany.

The UN also faces a series of structural flaws. Cheif among them is that oppresive dictatorships get an equal voice as free nations. For example, why should Sudan, a nation with a history of ethnic cleansing and human rights abuse, get the same say as Austria? Or why should Mynamar, a brutal military dictatorship, get the same rights as the United States? In this manner, it not only hinders the spread of Democracy but also promotes totalitarianism and opressive regimes.

A second problem with the UN system is the ease and frequency with which it is ignored by the members of the Security Council, who use it in order to hold back American influence and spread its own.. Russia, for example, has repeatedly used the UN to block U.S. initiatives in the Balkans and Iraq, while ignoring protests against its own policies in Chechnya. China has used the UN as a tool to halt US peacekeeping missions in Macedonia and Kosovo. At the same time, Beijing undertook its own unilateralist invasion of Tibet and has pledged to retake Taiwan by force without any regard for the UN’s objections. And then there is France – the country that led the UN crusade against the U.S. in the Iraq War. Since 1960, France has conducted 48 separate military interventions in Africa – very few of which had Security Council approval.

Then, there is the corruption that dominates the United Nations. ike so many public sector enterprises, the UN is marked by “routine fraud, waste, and abuse of resources.

For decades, UN budgetary procedures have been “covered by a shroud of obfuscation and secrecy,” without any avenue for U.S. taxpayer oversight, dispite the fact that the US pays a great deal of the UN's funding. For more than 20 years, the committee that controls the budget (the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions) has been run by Conrad Mselle – a Tanzanian who has no formal training in finance, convenes committee meetings behind closed doors, and routinely diverts large sums of money into his own discretionary accounts.

Predictably, the UN’s lack of accountability leads to waste – some of which is an unintentional by-product of bureaucratic inefficiency and some of which is deliberately generated for the profit of UN leaders. An independent inspector found examples of waste and abuse in multiple UN offices. For example, 10 million dollars was embezzled from the UN Childrens Fund. 4 million embezzled from UN offices in Mogadishu.

This is in addition to the Oil-for-Food scandal. Ten percent of the program’s funds – about $10 billion – went directly into the personal bank accounts of Saddam Hussein and his family. Also three high-ranking UN officials – including undersecretary Benon Sevanake – accepted multi-million-dollar bribes from the Iraqi government.

Another problem with the UN is incompetant management. For example, there is no way to determine if military force should be used to secure stability in a nation. This leads to the UN sending troops to countries like Georgia, where they aren't needed, and ignoring nations like the Sudan, where they are. Because the UN rewards countries for contributions to peacekeeping ($1,000 per soldier per month + costs of the mission) but lacks a s ystem for verifying the credentials of troops, countries often send second-rank personnel. For example, in 1993 the government of Bulgaria – starved for hard currency – cut a deal with inmates from prisons and psychiatric wards, offering them pardons if they participated as peacekeepers on a UN mission to Cambodia. Hundreds of mental health inmates put on uniforms, were shipped to Cambodia, and went on a six-month rampage across the country. The Bulgarian government got $1,000 a head, the inmates got their freedom, and Cambodia got bedlam.

During the same mission in Cambodia, peacekeepers became famous for producing a drug/alcohol cocktail called the “Space Shuttle” – a combination of marijuana, cocaine, and liquor that was distilled over a six-week period and sold to the local populace. On a mission in Somalia, the peacekeeping forces operated a weekend brothel at a local villa and used girls from the nearby refugee camp to make pornographic videos.

There are many more reasons that I shall not get into, but I beleive the UN is the worst idea a human has ever had. Since it's foundation, the world has seen more turmoil than ever before, and instead of trying to prevent it, the UN adds to it.