How long would the United Nations survive if the US pulled out?

Question

Considering that tax-paying Americans provide the majority of the funds to support its operations (as crooked as they are) and salaries, and our efforts are rewarded with the constant insults and attempts to undermine our sovreignty, shouldn't we just pull out of the UN and watch them beg instead of lecture? I wonder if Kofi wouldn't all of a sudden see things our way for a change, and right-quick!
I give 'em 3 hours.

Answer 1

Hell we oughta just pull out for no good reason. They would cry and whine, hurl insults and we could see how each country really felt about us. The U.N. is a great big ball of red tape. I would prefer they just say what they want "one world government" and we can get on with the freedom fight.

Answer 2

1. The League of Nations survived until it was supplanted by the UN. Without US participation or money, although it was "invented" by Pres. Wilson.

2. The USA finances more of the UN budget than any other country. However it also receives most of that budget -- the UN Headquarters are in New York City, a very expensive place and of course its emplyees, including American ones, spend their salaries in NY. Also, the spending in NY by national delegations to the UN is quite substantial.

3. To say that UN operations are "crooked" means you really don't want an informed answer to your "question": you just want to state your opinion. The notion of the UN General Assembly is to give nations a forum in which to comlain so they won't go to war instead. The Security Council in which the US has a veto is designed to take action.

4. You may not agree with Kofi -- certainly I don't on many issues -- but most of the world does not agree with the USA, and for good and sufficient reason. Perhaps you have a better plan, like the "shock and awe" that didn't work in Iraq. Or thermonuclear war.

5. No sane person has ever suggested that the UN specialized agencies are anything but positive contributors to health and safety and efficiency in human existence. WHO, ITU, WFP ... the whole alphabet soup about which you perhaps know nothing. They are in fact the mainstay of UN operations. And are mostly in Geneva. Without the ITU and the UPU you wouldn't have had international phone and mail service, respectively, because there would be no common standards or rules.

Answer 3

I do not know...and frankly who would care? The UN anyways is mostly pathetic (even its wildlife and food-for-poor operations have much left to be desired)...and several of its functions have been taken over by units like the Red Cross, Amnesty International, NATO and other non-UN bodies.

While I am not exactly pro-America (unless I agree with the circumstance or just dont like the opposing side)...many people here really think that the UN can survive without USA money, without USA political backing and without USA military muscle. I find that amusing because last I checked nearly 80+% of the UN's expenditures are from the Yanks...(the rest are from donations and or other nations), most of the decisions are usually affected by the stance of the USA (some would say this is problematic), and without USA military muscle the UN's peackeeping missions would become impotent because most of their peacekeepers (from the European and African nations) seriously cannot fight a decent war for even 3 days (and this is no idle boast...look at the peacekeeping units deployed today...rarely will you see a peacekeeping force that is ready for a real war since 1993 - the Somalia incidents).

In short I have no real Idea how long the UN would survive...but a USA withdrawal, for better or worse, will cause shockwaves across the world political scene (and this possibility is real boys and girls!!!)...

Answer 4

not something, in the adventure that they are voters. If not, then there'll be problem. yet i'm not anticipating that to take position. So, you look quite stressful and prepared about turning the U. S. right into a northern Mexico. exciting. i am hoping you do not get what you're hoping for. Taken a glance at Mexico at present? If that were to take position, the position ought to the Mexicans run to them? not quite some strawberries to p.c.. in Canada. by using the way, did you recognize that before we took it faraway from Mexico, they took it faraway from some different person? No. probably not. That little tidbit wasn't on the lower back of your cereal container this morning.

Answer 5

It amazes me that you right wingers keep dreaming up conflicts with the United Nations. Does America want to take over all the peace keeping efforts that the UN is doing all over the world right at this moment?
Is there something that suggests that we would want to make peace happen in the world. I don't see any efforts in that regard. We however are spending billions a month to kill people. Do you think the UN would take that job over?
Why not get out of Iraq and save all the money we are throwing at a mistake and an other lost War.

Why don't you put your head and heart into waging peace?

Answer 6

UN in US making global good
you in trouble, making conflict
leave UN, US could not
world charrot run by UN wheels
US is mainframe
its economy is one among the block horse
they go for peace world
look for good governance and liberty
thie run over terror and war
use knife and sanction for clearing the way
dont aim to collapse anything good
pray for the best of the world.

Think better
Best wishes

Answer 7

You know they don't want an American to run the UN, cuz we don't play. Other small countries don't have as much to lose. No one bothers them, so they don't see things the way we do. I may not like Bush, but you know, we had to react to the actions that happened on sept 11, or they would be repeated again.

Hey loveben, If they wouldn't collapse without us, then why don't they stop asking us for aid... sheesh.

PS.. And why do we have to be the worlds babysitter?

Answer 8

The UN began shortly after WWI , by a man who proposed a league; German philosopher Immanuel Kan, it was only then France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Germany, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) played major parts in this league. US was not included until 1945. They have an impact but they do not make the entire entity. If US pulled out (which they never will) it would probably have no effect on us today , just as it does now, with them in there.

Answer 9

Your opinion of the U.N is very misguided and almost tabloid.

The point is and has always been the U.S as participant.

As i am sure you know, that is why the League of Nations failed, lack of U.S participation......then came the Nazi's.

all because of people with little minds.

Our country could do a lot of good through the U.N, and it has.
Its just under this adminstration, we sent Josh Bolten, the man who single handedly botched our negotians with N. Korea before it was this bad. This fear you have is not healthy.

Repeating history is for those of little minds. The U.N has so much potential.

and as for oil for food it happend under U.S and British watch, they knew what was going on, and american companies also profited. Its those who listen to entirely too much Talk Radio than hold back real progress.
thanks.

Answer 10

Just enough time to loot as much stuff as possible and get out the door. The UN is mainly funded by the US but is basically a third world organization anymore.