Quotation from the article by Bruce Bawer to which Cogito has provided a link - and which is a MUST-READ:
Of course, instead of keeping UNRWA alive, the Western powers should at this point be doing everything they can to shut the thing down. In fact, this latest scandal strengthens the already highly persuasive case for dissolving the UN entirely. During the Cold War, as noted, it treated the Soviet bloc countries as if they were free. In 1971, Taiwan was thrown out and replaced with Red China, then in the midst of its barbaric Cultural Revolution. In recent decades, the majority-Muslim member nations have asserted their power in the UN to an unsettling degree, consistently using the organization as a club with which to beat Israel. The documentary UN Me ended with a provocative conclusion: the ultimate purpose of the UN is nothing more or less than to perpetuate its own existence – to keep alive this empty, soulless shell of an institution that provides members of the privileged classes of poor nations with an opportunity to live in comfortable Manhattan apartments and have impressive offices in a magnificent midtown high-rise where the pay is great, the job security is terrific, the workload is almost nonexistent, and the promise of promoting world peace and harmony is nothing but a sick joke. Time to turn that tower on First Avenue into – well – anything else: a hospital, an apartment block, an office building, a Trump hotel. Imagine the name of Trump – who has done more for world peace in the last few months than the UN has done in its whole ludicrous history – displayed on the Secretariat building in huge golden letters: what a beautiful ending that would be to this eighty-year-long farce!
YES!! - An “eighty year long farce” is exactly right!
And its actually alot worse than just a farce - its a disgrace. It has done decades of terrible damage in the world.
Wouldn’t a Trump Hotel on the East Side be a welcome sight in place of the ghastly UN?
Indeed it would, Cogito!