Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness in World Order or does it need to be reorganized?

Thought the sanctions and monitoring to help maintain world peace through the U.N. may not be the most effective tool, it is still something that I feel the world needs. I believe it could benefit from some reorganization though.

I don't think that we should give up on the United Nations. I do think that it's needs to be reviewed and some changes made. But leaving the United Nations wld leave way to many countries out there with protective security that the UN provides. We said, don't worry, there's no need for you to arm yourself with nukes and build up giant militaries because if anything happens we will be there for you. To just back out of that wld have great repercussions to smaller countries and the free world as a whole..

I vote with the Captain. This dog won't hunt.

Why continue to host and fund an organization made up of nations which, to a large degree, stand in opposition to our national interests? If they truly were effective at any of the tasks they take on, that would be different, but they seem to be corrupt to the core. Let them move elsewhere. I'm sure that the ground that they currently occupy could be put to better use.

Too political and too corrupted, needs to go back and fix itself.

Shit can the whole lot......

I am with Capt Seid Waddell.

Colonel, this is a tough one to answer. The United Nations has been around most of my lifetime. I believe that it did work in the early years. Since the early years, I am afraid that it has become unwieldy due to its' sheer size and due to becoming much less than transparent. I believe that it is filled with a group of nations that only like our handouts and then curse us after receiving their handout. We certainly need an organization that can and will do the job that the UN should be doing. I am afraid that it would be better to dismantle it and start over again. At any rate, a reformed organization should function on a fair basis of dues and payments. The United States should not be relied upon to kick in the "lion's share" of operating costs as it has done in recent years. These are my "off the cuff" thoughts. I would certainly like to read the thoughts of others on this site.

I don't know how the world would take to that.
While the UN has definitely become a somewhat dated organization it does still provide a forum for all recognized governments to meet. All organized governments must absolutely be able to communicate with each other in some forum.
The G6 and G8 and G20 take care of much business between al the large players and is very effective at allowing a far more organized cooperation without all the relatively small players getting in at the poker table.
The UN is what it is.
As to wether any major accomplishments are achieved there I haven't the knowledge to comment.
Mostly a "public" forum as these things go.
Diplomats can do formal and important business there which is definitely very important.
Sort of a world service center for working out smaller affairs.
In that way it is more effective than the large summits which are publically politicized.
The nuts and bolts department might be a better name for the UN

Just happened to have the album with a few UN items near to hand.
Not sure if the other commemorative sheets were celebrating political affiliations or moments.
They certainly predate the UN....(and I don't read Cyrillic)

COL Mikel J. Burroughs according to John Birch. We should have been out a long time ago.