You are completely wrong.
Like I said, democracy is also a troublesome undertaking, but it’s the best we got.

Only those who dream about the US dominaitng the world cpuld suggest pulling the plug. Since domination if far from possible, there are still times when the UN comes in handy, even for the US.

Psst, watch out, I think I see a lefty under your bed.!

Ashen Shard:

that is just as logical as saying the U.S. government has no reason to exist

100% wrong, and extremelly silly as well. Only naive fools have faith in world government and give the UN as much as, if not more, credibility and respect than, say, the United States. The UN is full of the ugly politics it was supposed to rise above, and has been degenerate since radicalism of leftism in the 1960s — where else would terrorist Yasser Arafat be made into a celebrity superstar and be invited to speak, where the General Assembly is the most laughable cast of clowns conceivable, while Russia and China play notorious games in the Security Council. The entire UN is often an anti-USA, anti-Western, anti-Israeli left-wing play pen.

The UN’s behavior in contemporary times is the reason why it’s mainstream, not extremist, to consider or even suggest that the USA leave the UN and expel the UN from US territory. Let it play games in a new host site, not necessarily a place like Jerusalem, but, more fittingly, a place such as dictator Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela or some other left-wing darling tyrannical regime. (Zimbabwe!) It’s too late for the USSR to host the “United Free Nations” [sic] in Leningrad, after all.

Domajot:

Do you chuck the whole thing out because of flaws when there is nothing better to replace it

There’s nothing wrong with pulling the plug on the UN, if the civilized world chose to do it. There need be no replacement for it, after all.

You could make the same argument for democracy, a troublesome mode of governanace with nothing better to replace it.

Two completely, uncomparable, situations Ashen

Though perhaps the UN has passed its prime and it is time for an organization with more teeth to take its place. Of course, we’d never go with that because it would mean surrendering our sovereignty in certain areas … including all the secret prisons we have now where we hold ‘terrorists’ and ‘enemy combatants’, not to mention the fact that it would allow the prosecution of some of our politicians for war crimes/crimes against humanity.