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When the United Nations was still an embryonic plan to aid in post-war construction the idea behind it was to unite the free nations of the world against tyranny. Indeed, one of the requirements for membership was that you had to be at war with the Axis! Can you imagine the requirement today that you had to participate in the liberation of Iraq? Half the members would get kicked out...which may not be such a bad thing!

What began as a noble experiment in collective defense has morphed into a bloated bureaucracy where diplomats—immune from any form of prosecution or real administrative justice—make back-room deals and squander funds meant to help the poor and desperate peoples of the world.

In the 1990s millions starved in Africa and were slaughtered in the Balkans and the United Nations did nothing. It took NATO intervention to stop the killing in the Balkans.

Slavery, genocide and famine are decimating the populations of eastern Africa and still the United Nations does nothing. People who recognize the impotence of the United Nations are calling on the United States to intervene—unilaterally, at that!

The Iraqi oil for food program was a travesty, with insider United Nations officials and friends of Saddam getting rich while the people of Iraq continued to starve and die from inadequate medical care. It took the United States led "coalition of the willing" to liberate Iraq and expose the fraud in the oil for food program. The United Nations merely issued strongly worded memos to Saddam during the twelve years between the cease-fire agreement that ended the first Persian Gulf War and the eventual liberation of Iraq. France, Germany, Russia and other countries actively profited from the delay in bringing Saddam to justice and thwarting any real progress via the United Nations.

Yet we are led to believe by some that the United Nations is the key to progress in the war on terrorism.

Will al Qaeda quake with fear when the United Nations sends them a memo asking them to please stop killing people?

Will dictators flee for safety when a United Nations delegation arrives to politely inquire about all those memos the United Nations has been sending about the genocide, weapons of mass destruction and brutal repression of political opposition?

It would be funny if it wasn't so deadly serious. Anyone who thinks that the United Nations is an effective tool to fight terrorism does not adequately understand the threat that terrorism poses.

Terrorists understand that they can effectively delay any political moves to bring them to justice while still waging deadly assaults against their enemies. The Palestinian terrorists, for example, have been waging a terrorist war for decades while they reject each and every diplomatic move to end their alleged "homelessness".

The reason for the ineffectiveness of the United Nations is clear to anyone who wants to know the truth. Any bureaucracy eventually changes into an entity that exists solely to perpetuate itself, and subjugates all other tasks to that concern. Diplomats in the United Nations are no better than the nobles of the 18th century who tried to maintain their status and privilege while those around them starved and died in revolutions aimed at delivering democracy to the world.

The only way the United Nations could become an effective tool for freedom in the world is if its current incarnation is dissolved and a new organization based on democracy (a prerequisite for membership!) and temporary bodies that exist only to solve a problem, and ones that cannot be continued indefinitely. Who has ever worked for a company where the managers who failed to solve problems get promoted and their funding increased? Okay, bad example, but when have those kinds of companies ever survived in a free market over the long run?

If the United Nations was a company, it would be bankrupt and in court defending itself against charges of fraud and misuse of shareholder funds. If the United Nations was a national government the people would be revolting against its oppressive, arbitrary rule.

What the United Nations is, however, is a bureaucracy. And the only way to slay a bureaucracy is to cut off its funding. The time to end this farce is now. The United States and other democracies must withdraw their funding of the United Nations and form a separate organization dedicated to spreading and defending democracy around the world.

In the 1990s millions starved in Africa and were slaughtered in the Balkans and the United Nations did nothing.

Will al Qaeda quake with fear when the United Nations sends them a memo asking them to please stop killing people?

Any bureaucracy eventually changes into an entity that exists solely to perpetuate itself.

The only way to slay a bureaucracy is to cut off its funding.