>It seems to me, then, that the US (and other countries too) should concentrate on strengthening the UN, not on weakening it. If the UN doesn't enforce its resolutions, then the #1 priority should be to do something about it.

We have been trying to do that. What the UN apparently fails to understand is that if all they do is pass resolutions, without backing them up, then no one will pay attention to the resolutions. The lastest resolution wasn't the first Iraq ignored. There were something like 16 before that that Iraq ignored. And when Iraq kicked out the UN inspectors in 1998, the UN did nothing, despite our protests. What else do you want the US to do?