UN

I just watched "Beyond The Gates" about the Rwandan Genocide and it reminds me just how completely useless the whole United Nations institution really is. If you look at the history of the UN from its founding in 1945 through the present day you will see a record of ineffectiveness. The UN did nothing to stop the Soviet occupations/invasions of: Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Afghanistan (1979) not to mention its tight dictatorships around Eastern Europe. It did nothing to stop the world coming to the brink during the Cold War (the Cuban Missile Crisis.) It did nothing/has done nothing to stop Arab/Muslim attacks/invasions against Israel from the 1940s to the present. It did nothing to stop the Killing Fields of Cambodia. UN "Peacekeepers" stood by and watched innocent people murdered in Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda and many other places. UN sanctions were useless in stopping Saddam in Iraq or apartheid in South Africa not to mention the current threats in Iran and North Korea. The UN may have seemed good on paper in 1945 (just like Communism) but in practice it has achieved/achieves nothing. It is a smoke-screen that gives people and countries a false sense of accomplishment despite the fact that it accomplishes nothing. The UN has stopped no wars, killings, dictatorships, famines, refugee problems and no major international dispute since 1945. It is merely a bunch of politicians from around the world talking and talking about doing things to better the world. When the UN is actually given a chance to make a difference for the better there are too many factors (ie the member states, the Security Council, etc) that work against the system so nothing could be done even if one tried. The UN should be disbanded since for the past several decades it has been up to individual countries, charities, governmental programs and regional military alliances that have made a difference in trying to ease the suffering of people around the world - not the UN.