Are We Abandoning the United Nations?
Maybe the UN will have to find another home outside of New York City, beyond our shores. Possibly Paris, London, Beijing or Moscow. One of the others who sit on the Security Council, in almost any country except the birthplace of individual freedom in which it now resides.
It's becoming more and more apparent that the United States supported the United Nations more as a buffer and Bully Pulpit between Cold War adversaries than as a long term vehicle for international mediation.
Mediation is for others, now that the Wall and the Curtain have fallen.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have become absolutely powerful. Our defense budget outpaces the next fourteen largest defense budgets worldwide, combined. We go where we please, do what we want, brush aside all criticisms, abrogate treaties at will and support rights of others only as it suits us.
The United Nations, much like the US Congress, moves slowly and ponderously, not perhaps accomplishing a great deal and ye…