>My personal point of view is that President Bush, by manipulation of (him by) the cabal for war on the world, has emasculated the U.N. I think I heard talk today that President Bush even wants the "humanitarian effort" to be a strictly coalition activity outside of the U.N. For the U.N. to survive I believe it will have to treat the U.S. as a pariah regime out of step with the rest of the world.

I am not sure whether the U.N. surviving or not is a desirable objective - in its current form, it does indeed have some shortcomings. What I am sure, though, is that World problems have to be solved by a joint effort, and this requires central organizations. If it isn't the U.N., it might be a successor organization (remember, the League of Nations was superceded by the United Nations).