How does the UN help the U.S., and how does it hurt them?
100744
I can't think of 1 issue where the UN has helped the US.  It always seems that the US has to force the UN to do the right thing.  After all the US human rights commitee is made up of countries like cuba & north korea.  The UN is also composed of many nations that fear freedom and democracy.  Besides, how can a gov't control its people when they have the freedom and self determination?
256256
Ha, I like the way that's put. America doesn't want everybody to obey it, but it seems like that becuase America is the only country with the balls to do anything about scumbags. The United Nations are supposed to take care of stuff like that, but they don't. So we're forced to take care of the whole world, becuase these other pansies won't.
847783
gosh...lol, the UN gets most of it from the pockets of Americans, they must be broke if we havent payed in lately.
815823
Well the answer to that is the same for EVERY question concerning the Un.  They will have a comittee to see if a comitee is needed for a comittee creating comittee.  Then a comittee will be sent to see which comittee gets coffee and donuts.\n   Then they will whine about America and Israel, and form a Kleenex comittee.  Then they will argue about passing a resolution.  5 years later they will ask America to enforce that resolution, and then yell at America for doing so.\n    That is how the Un works now, how the Un has always worked, and how the Un will continue to work.
809208
The biggest problem the United Nations has is the courage to enforce any of its resolutions or sanctions. The UN stood by and watched 1 million people killed in Rwanda and did absolutely nothing except a few UN soldiers raped and killed innocent people.
453924
Educate yourself on this issue. You will find that you are wrong. It is up to the United Nations Security Council, not America.\n\nI am American and I don't want war or nukes. I also don't want to be blamed for the actions of the security system set up by the global powers.
337487
The United Nations doesn't and will most likely never help the world.  It's a wasted organization that needs a lot less talk and a lot more action.
947643
1. The UN is for liberals who want to destroy America.\n\n2. Because liberals gave them to them in the courts.  And because Republicans refused to do anything about it.  Congress can tell the courts what they can and cannot rule on.  \n\nThis is why we need real Republicans. \n\nNewt in 2008
524955
The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations which was considered by many to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body: it had been formed in response to World War I, on the premise that such wars could be prevented by such an entity, yet had failed to prevent World War II. \n\nThe biggest advantage the United Nations has over the League of Nations is the ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers.\n\nThe term "United Nations" (which term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies.\n\nThe idea for the UN was elaborated in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo and Tehran in 1943. From August to October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain international peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were discussed and debated by governments and citizens worldwide.\n\nOn April 25, 1945, the UN Conference on International Organizations began in San Francisco. In addition to the Governments, a number of non-governmental organizations, including Lions Clubs International, were invited to assist in drafting the charter. The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations two months later on June 26. Poland had not been represented at the conference, but a place had been reserved for it among the original signatories, and it added its name later. The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.\n\nInitially, the body was known as the United Nations Organisation, or UNO. However, by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as \nThe United Nations, or The UN.
570466
It has lost its effectiveness primarily because the major world powers do as they please and care a jot about the UNO and they expect other countries to follow UNO norms.As a result majority of the countries defy the UNO.I todays time the UNO means the USA!When the USA does not want to attack a country directly it uses the UNO and it's provisions for doing so.
882982
The United Nations is a giant "paper-tiger" that is "all looks and no substance". Ask Taiwan about how they aren't considered a sovereign nation because China doesn't want them to be..and how the U.N just plays along to not upset the big scary China! The United Nations are held very high on the limousine liberal scale because they share the same methods...\nTell it how it should be, while disregarding factual outcomes..because it is always better to be viewed as wanting to help then ever actually helping at all...\nSo, I say dont give the U.N. the satisfaction of wondering what they think...form your own opinion
622632
it is not a new discovery. UN have been a puppet in USA hands for long time now. UN is useless when the subject concerns USA.
1078463
Yes. The U.N. is primarily made up of countries that would have to be considered as run by dictators.  Nothing good can come from such an organisation.  We cling to it in hope of it fullfilling its inteded purpose.  We should accept its failure or get rid of the countries that are not in compliance with the founding principals. As it is, it is only a way of helping evil prevail.
174406
The UN has always been a joke.  Recent US actions didnt change that they just pointed out what we all already knew.  I am visiting Bosnia and all the places that were designated UN safe zones where everybody got murdered because they were foolish enough to trust the UN.  Until the UN actually shows it is competant enough to do something (anything) the US and other countries like Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia will just keep doing whatever they want whether you agree with these actions is another question.
1081296
The US basically started the UN!  The US pushed for other countries to join the UN during the Cold War and now must accept what it has helped implement.  Can you Neocon Conspiracy theorists get over yourselves?  The UN is not a demonic institution that was prophasized in the "Bible" or a creation of the former Soviet Bloc countries!  Geez...
956033
the US has a history of trying to be the healer of the world.\nbut there is a line between helping and supporting.\nthere is a bigger line between supporting and suppling weapons to people
835821
You're spot on. The UN is acting as a country unto itself. Their inability to operate effectively is proof. They sit on their bloodstained hands when they are needed most and point fingers and accuse when they need to STFU and sit quietly. The graft and deception going on in the UN almost makes the governmental back room dealing a non-issue.