True indeed, I can of course only speak for myself but I despises UN, it is a playground for dictators and religious extremists, you remember whenThat's even if you suppose the UN has any power to act against the US. The UN's power is basically the US armed forces, and European money. If they really had too, the europeans could use their military power, too, wich, even if weak complared to the US, is strong compared with most other nations.
The US, for obvious reasons, is out, and the EU, whatener some UN wacko said, would not turn agaisnt the US, much less for some muslim country, even if they had millions demonstrating on the streets. Few of those demonstrators would be actually serious if their nation had to act beyond the media, and the fact is, Europeans, deep down, with their massive muslin districts causing powers in their mayor cities, simply do not trust muslims -it is not pollitically correct to say so, but also true.
I am surprised that the US has not withdrawn from that fora years ago because the constant whining against it that takes place there.
what you're looking for here isn't political or military action from the UN, the only way you are gonna get the US to stop something is through economics, so perhaps if you get the oil rich nations of the middle east cut off oil from the US (although you'd need to get rid of the saudi royal family for that), or perhaps get the Chinese to use their backing of US debt as pressure, however the chinese option is less likely since they would effectively kill their primary market for all those cheap manufactured goods they make over there. So pretty much your best POd would be some major international incident in the middle east priod to 2003, prehaps muslim extremists assasinate the Saudi royal family, the US overreacts militarily in some way and pisses off OPEC, then you might get a situation in which the oil rich nations of the middle east pull a monroe doctrine type thing with the middle east and threaten to cut off oil to the US if they don't stay out of Iraq, now that might stop dubyah in his tracks.
2. The Conservatives in the US would actually love for the UN to kick them out.
Without a superpower and a quarter of its budget it'll have the same fate as the League of NationsWould the UN even survive without US funding?
This is very good point.In addition to the impact of lost US funding, consider the number of countries and NGOs who view the UN largely or wholly as a means of hampering and/or hectoring the US. Consider further the number of third world dictators who view the UN as an excuse for cushy shopping and another means of guilt-tripping money from gullible foreigners.
Take away the US involvement, take away the cushy NYC locale, and interest begins to drop. The benefits of UN involvement would decrease, while the costs of participation would increase (to make up for the loss of US funding, if for no other reason).
There will still be participation, no doubt, but the long term prognosis would be even worse than otherwise.
After all, take the US off the table - what are the chances of the UN 'taking action' against Chinese, EU, Indian, or Russian defiance?
Zippidy-do-dah.
I haven't seen many pics of your dog of late, bored at work. Is he doing fine?