Is the United States contempt for the United Nations the biggest scandal of all?

Question

The USA Government continues to be contemptuous of the United Nations thus undermining the credibility and influence of the UN. But the US has over all too many years failed to support the UN financially to the extent that it could and should. The scandal is that America is frighteningly willing to spend billions of dollars on war, but unwilling to spend a fraction of that on peace. The UN gives peace a chance - but the US prefers the sword and treats the UN with contempt. How sad and contemptible is this?

Answer 1

The biggest scandal is that the worlds most brutal African, Asian and Muslim dictatorships converted the UN to a Useless Nothing. The US should not finance that miserable crowd and should not take note of any of the rigged votes. Corrupt Kofi left a mess! Now he enjoys the millions with his Swedish wife and does not care about the world.

Answer 2

How sad and wrong you are, on every point.  There is no scandal.  The UN has become a "good old boys" club for despots.  

I would like to see the US pull out of the UN and remove the thugs from our soil.  Those people spy on us, break our laws, spend our money on themselves, then have immunity.

The UN is not a peace organization.  It is all talk and no action.

Answer 3

When I was in High school in the 50's, I understood the reason for the UN, but also knew that few members paid for their upkeep, even in NYC. They ignored our traffic laws, and dismissed even the parking meters,and regulations on the street cleaning requirements. They sided with the commies, and to this day owe large amounts to the USA. So then you are mistaken, and believe in fairy tales. We, the people of United States, need to kick the UN out of NYC, and withdraw from membership. Granted we need to clean our own house, round up our crooked and immoral politicians,and start over with our court of justice.

Answer 4

The UN is the biggest scandal of them all.

Supporting terrorists, communism and socialism is not

helping the smaller/poorer countries gain freedom from oppression.

War happens without any US support, note the tribal wars on Africa and Asia, they are very good at massacring their own people without any outside help.

The founders of the UN were trying for something called freedom, instead its turn into a bunch of crock and I really wish they would turn their building into a fast food place and send them packing to Saudi Arabia.

Answer 5

The toothless, gutless, terrorist loving  UN is the biggest scandal of all. And the USA is nuts to be the chief funder of this pathetic joke which opposes us at every turn.

Answer 6

It's the other way around. The US is statistically the most generous nation on earth. The UN as a body is 2nd, and most of that is sponsored funds by the US.

The US is the subject of near total contempt in the UN. The US has spent trillions (actually) on wars that either have been called UN actions, but in which America has born the financial and blood costs, or has also gone it alone on several occasions where the rest of the world has known it was in their best interest.  

The UN would collapse if the US pulled out. It is a parasitic body, falsely claiming to stand for humanity.

Answer 7

Definitely. The US will fall, all empires do.

Answer 8

Not at all. I have total contempt for it as well. It is a lefty/liberal talking shop that has some of the worlds worst despotic countries as members.

NATO has kept the peace, not the UN. Look at its prevarication over Iraq, and it was the UN that wouldn't allow regime change in Iraq first time around. Look at some of the outrages that are being committed now in a number of countries, whilst it does absolutely nothing.

Answer 9

America is a founding member of the UN and holds a very important veto power in her Security Council.

What we are all seeing now as regards to America's attitude to the UN is a result of the IMPOTENCY of America's diplomacy, seems the US State does not have the capacity and skills needed to explain to the world Americas standing on issues.....and at the face of International reluctance to tow her line, we  see behaviour that can best be classed as INFANTILE. We are in the 21st century, everybody should have their say and due respect.

Answer 10

The U.S. puts more money into the U.N. than eny other country.That doesn't justify them having contempt for the U.N., assuming they have. Although I'm not a country, I have contempt for the U.N. It's corrupt and useless.

Answer 11

The US should pull all funding and support out of the UN, relocate it from New York to Brussels and see how long it will last after that.