Well we can all agree on one point...

The UN is a an ineffective straw man that makes a lot of noise and does a lot of nothing about it. Its like one of those little yip, yip dogs that chases you around and barks at your ankles. It never bites cuz it really hasn't the teeth, it cowars at any aggressive movement and is always in constant danger of having the sh*t kicked out of it by, well, pretty much anyone.

Honestly, the idea that the UN can be a peace keeping force in Lebanon is like saying the little yip, yip dog could keep the peace in the middle of two Rotweilers. It would just be ugly (see above).

Even mortal enemies seem to get that, which says to me that we all might want to take a step back and shuffle Kofi off into the corner, out of the way where he can't break anything. Oh and while we are at it, lets also think about moving the last, best hope of the global community somewhere more global, preferably outside of the US.

Here is what Ahmadinejad said about the UN: Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said UN inaction was not helping. "Upon hearing the slightest criticism against the Zionist regime, they issue dozens of resolutions. But now, 13 days after that regime's massive attack against Lebanon, using most fatal weapons, they even refrain from asking for a truce," he said.

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What President Bush says about the UN: "The United Nations must be strong and efficient, free of corruption and accountable to the people it serves," he said. "The United Nations must stand for integrity and live by the high standards it sets for others."

Also this OpEd says it pretty well...

Regretably, there is no international body capable of quenching the violence in the middle-east, save NATO maybe. You see, to effect change for "the good" an entity like the UN must take a morally specific position toward something other than simply "the violence". They need to cease drawing moral equivelants between stone killers and nations that wish only to live in peace who defend their own borders. A body such as the UN cannot exist for all, because all are not good and all do not wish peace. The UN allows the largest human rights violaters in our world to sit on a council for the same name whose mission is to increase human rights. It condems Israel for protecting its citizens while almost simultaneously ignoring the violence in Darfur. It condems the United States for Abu Garab while it sits by and allows China to engage in the organ farming of executed prisinors unfettered and unchecked.

Uncle Tim's says "Gut the UN, clean it up and make it useful and a force for peace in the world again.

Either that or just kick it accross the room to get it of our leg.