Should the UN be dissolved?

Question

Does it serve enough useful purposes to justify it's continuation, and the continued financial support? Would it continue without USA financial support? And should our support be only equal (say per capita of our population) to that of other countries?

All very good and thought provoking thoughts, both pro and con.

Answer 1

This is incredibly complex, but for the simple answer, just ask yourself this question: Since the UN was formed, how many world wars have there been? Answer that and get your answer for this as well.

Answer 2

Don't start. For awhile, the US was a dead-beat nation, refusing to pay its dues. We wouldn't pay up our share until the UN did what we said, but we paid up partly under threat of being kicked out.

UN diplomats are paid by their nations, not by the US taxpayer. Nations are assessed each on the same basis, Gross National Product or some such formula that is applied equally to all the nations.

Diplomats can misuse their nation's money all they want, it costs us nothing.

The UN does a great deal of humanitarian work and mediates a lot of conflict and does so on a yearly budget that is a fraction of what the US spends on Iraq. Financially, it is a bargain.

There are other people in the world and other nations and just because you would rather have the US run the whole earth does not mean the UN should "be dissolved." We don't own the Earth, and we don't have a right to impose control over it, as if we could.

Answer 3

I don't have enough knowledge to give and acceptable answer for any of these, but I will be interested in the responses....
(...but here is my two sense, anyway - or lack of)
I hardly ever like the UN, but I'm not so sure it would be a good thing if it were dissolved. Maybe it's purpose should be redefined.

As far as support being equal - that would take away from the power we hold, and that would be a little scary

Answer 4

I believe that if the United States of America and the United Kingdom both withdrawed from the United Nations, the United Nations would go out of business within one year because with no funding from the two most powerful countires in the world, the UN would collapse and go out of business.

Answer 5

I think the UN was a good idea when it was first founded now it is just a paper tiger, all growl but no bite.No one listens to them anymore because they know they will only talk,talk,talk.Saddam knew this& that is why he ignored the santions. He knew thay would keep condeming what he was doing but do nothing about it.Even now UN.peace keeper are not allowed to defend themselves unless fired upon. I was taught in the Army if you waited for the enemy to fire first you usally are dead.Thank God Bush had the guts to take Saddam on because the UN did not//

Answer 6

For its whole existence, the UN has served as KGB headquarters in the US, and also the headquarters for the intelligence services of many other countries.
UN "diplomats" have, as expected, diplomatic immunity. Their crimes, from parking tickets to murder, have cost NYC countless millions of dollars.
When Ed Koch was mayor of New York, he called the UN a monument to hypocrisy. Nobody argued about that.

Answer 7

It would not serve the U. S.' pastimes. The dissolution of the UN might convey approximately quicker upward thrust of Pan-Iranian, Pan-Arab and different selective pastime communities -- Pan-African and Pan-Asian. A Pan-eu Union already formally has shaped. the U. S. frequently prevails one on one with different international locations, yet whilst the U. S. is outnumbered via such communities, Say see you later like they did to Rome.

Answer 8

I love the fact that those indispensable, little brown diplomats are actually patronizing high-priced, New York call girls, charging it to the UN tab, and American taxpayers are footing the bill, in part. Awesome!

Answer 9

It should disappear but now is not the time, it can't not survive without USA support

Answer 10

It should be dissolved not because of any ones contribution but because it has become a tool of the US.