Dear President Madame Clinton (from Saddam Hussein):

[jaguar]

You mean somebody out there actually obeys it??

No, really, which one is the country that currently gives a flying leaping flying shit about the UN and international law.

Maybe one o' them scandinavian ones?? OOoohh, yeah,.... it's Norway, isn't it?

What the fuck?
Seriously. What. The fuck.
International law and international bodies are what settle disputer, and set rules for things like EEZs, shipping rights, treaty bounds etc. They can carry weight in many ways in different circumstances. Your myopic view i doubt actually covers anything outside the big issue of the day and thus this might all just slip under the CNN radar.

Nations could engage in diplomacy. Hey, we don't need to get together in a big room any longer, we have the net now.

They just wouldn't have a "Human Rights Coalition" where the US would be voted OUT and a bunch of nations that engage in slavery, torture, etc. would be voted IN.

Or a security council based on a bizarro world where France is 100% relevant and Japan, Canada, and India are 100% irrelevant.

Damn, where DID I put that worm-can opener.

You appear to be slipping steadily out of reality. This may come as a deep shock to you, but China and America aren't the only nations on earth. Japan is an (and despite its woes) still an economic powerhouse that by means of that carries a signifigant punch. France has an extensive nuclear arsenal. Canada is not a permanant member. Of course the Un is bloated, it needs to be cut down and reshaped but its basic functions is extremely important. It provides a framework which provides the means for diplomacy in a far better way in many respects. It creates a forum for smaller nations to have a voice and get access to larger nations, it provides a framework for constructing things like peacekeeping forces, coalitions, etc.

I guess the fundamental is that you see the US as the obvious and clear leader of the world, and rightly so and i see it as a slow motion train crash with every other poor bastard in the path.