For many years now, the United States has actively been a participant in the so-called United Nations. It was established with the hope that this organization could resolve conflicts before they start and solve many problems of the world. Yet today, after billions of dollars in funds given to the United Nations out of the pockets of American citizens, the United Nations continues to achieve little and restrict the U.S. It seems, the United Nations has become a internationally accepted device for curbing the power and will of the United States in the world. Yet, as United Nations politicians debate hard on how much further sea borders of the United States should be restricted, genocides and incomprehensible acts of justice occur. Take for example, the next movement of Russia to brutally recover its former territories by invading the democratic nation of Georgia. The world can still hear the laughs of Putin as the United Nations "strongly condemned" the actions of Russia as Russian soldiers continued to harass Georgian citizens and destroy as much infrastructure as possible. The United States needs to immediately withdraw from the United Nations and save our sovereignty as well as protect the innocent and oppressed peoples of the world without the ridiculous bureaucracy of a corrupt and useless organization.
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I understand that the U.N. has its weaknesses, but I feel that it is still important and essential that the United States remain in it. As an international collaboration, I feel that the U.N. carries a greater weight of opinion than the United States. Also, you mentioned that the U.S. is giving so much money towards U.N. projects. If we were to leave the U.N. and tackle the problems of the world on our own, would that not be a more expensive endeavor?
Fencer07, you raise a good point about the expensiveness of tackling the world's problems without the UN. I think it should be understood though that right now we are tackling more of the world's problems with more money than any other nation on Earth. If we lost the joint funds of the United Nation (which isn't that much considering the U.S. pays 22% of the expenses) we could either cut taxes or further use that money to accomplish problems efficiently, without the heavy bureaucracy and opposition from our enemies.
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I understand that we do contribute a lot to the U.N., but the fact that other nations make up the other 78% of the funding is important as well. If we were doing this alone, I think we would be pouring more funds in.
Every organization and government has a bureaucracy problem, our government is no exception. Also, although we may have opposition from other U.N. participants, we also have a lot of support in U.S. backed U.N. endeavors.
I understand what you mean when you talk about getting support in U.S. backed U.N. endeavors but my prime example would be Somalia. If you remember, the operation in Somalia during the Clinton administration was a U.N. endeavor that was left solely to the U.S. We were attempting to stop the warlords from controlling the humanitarian aid and we were supposed to be backed by the U.N. but when we finally went in to attempt to stop the warlords with force (Black Hawk Down) the operation was a disaster and many Americans lost their lives in combat in the name of the U.N. This only one example of our "U.S. backed U.N. endeavors" that ends up on us to do the job and pay with American lives.
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I guess I am talking more about symbolic support and economic sanctions.
Keep in mind though that when the U.S. entered Somalia we did so because the 500 U.N. peace keepers failed to create accord between the various clan leaders. it was the U.S.'s own intuition to send military troops to the region. From my understanding, the only connection that this had to the U.N. was symbolic support and a way of setting the stage for the peace keepers to come in. Yes it was backed by the U.N. but WE VOLUNTEERED! So if Black Hawk Down did not work out so well, it was still a U.S. military event, not necessarily an order of the U.N.
So I do not think the situation in Somalia was left soley to the U.S., we saw nothing happening and were the first to volunteer to send our troops. The U.N. did not pressure us to do so. The U.N. has peace keepers all over the world. Just because we decided to step in an exert our power for democracy and peace does not mean that it is the U.N.'s fault when American lives our lost.
Like I was saying, this is something that we did in part without the U.N. Yes they said they agreed, but as you suggested, if the U.S. was just going to go out in the world and provide its own humanitarian aid with out the help of other resources, in this case a significant amount of troops from other nations, there is always a chance for failure. I think that the U.N. is a great forum for the discussion and joint-decision making on these sort of issues. However, I think one of the major problems is that the U.S. jumps too quickly to conclusions and often finds itself entering situations that it may not be fully prepared for or justified to be in.