[jaguar]

UT you truely take the cake when it comes to misread what i'm saying i swear. Shipping rights was an example. Your 'summary' only proved to show your lack of understanding.

As hermit said, the UN does allot fo work in one hell of allot of countries and as i said, a mechanism for insitgating allot of other good, such as peacekeeping forces. Building in NY are irrelavent, those mechanisms are not.

You see this may come as a suprise but there are other people in the world other than the US and there are things that you may not see in your myopic media. They simply don't make good news compared to reeating footage of dogs dieing from white gas. The UN provides an important forum and does allot that never makes the news.

Of course none of this helps the 'War on Terror® '.

Like all international bodies, it weakness is its reliance on nations for its power, and therefore can be hijacked by the interests of the nations involved. most nations do things in the order of strategic security, economic security, being a good international citizen, international humanatarianism. While major powers can impact on the UN and control its direction, particuarly the US which is well known for screwing with pretty much anything in the end it exists for a reason, otherwise it would not.