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The United Nations.  So many thinks it's the best thing that man could have ever created, others the worst.  the UN is useless.  They do nothing.  I will give them a couple of things, they ended small pox and they have  better name than the League of Nations.

The power of veto that exists in the security council is horrible, it accomplish nothing.   During the cold war the Soviets and the Americans would simple not allow anything that the other said. Now it can shut down imprtant issues.
The UN is supposed to protect every citizen of this earth but they don't, they don't even try.  The Rwandan genocide was allowed to continue fort he 100 horrific days that it did.  They could have ended it, but too much  paper work and it was only tribal warfare in Africa.
The flooding in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the rape a minute in The Congo, the shanty towns or Rio de Janeiro. and countless other countries, the sex tourist industry on south east Asia. None of these issues have been fixed.  Why?  The UN is supposed to be the most powerful organization on this planet yet they refuse to help.  they'll go in set up a refugee camp and leave.  Kosovo's non member status in the UN can be viewed as a blessing for the UN.
The UN needs to step up and start doing what they've said they've done for the past 50 years.
Canada has always felt a special connect to the UN because of Lester B Pearson's creation of the UN peace keepers.  Canada did not receive the seat on the security council that we felt so assured we owned this is a black spot on Canada's record.
The UN's first mission was the Korean war ( I mean police action) yet North Korea could release nuclear weapons at any moment.
The UN is uninvolved and useless.