The UN...What Is It Good For? (absolutely nothin')

The United Nations has way outlived its usefulness, that is, unless you are a western nation on the take (France, Germany et al) or third world dictator. Henry Lamb, a full time UN observer, makes his case in an excellent column which illustrates the total irrelevance of the U.N.:

"Secretary General, Kofi Annan, told the British press, that the U.S. war in Iraq is 'illegal.' He does not understand, or accept the fact that U.S. military action is made 'legal' by the U.S. Congress, not by anything the U.N. may do or say.
Had the U.N. effectively enforced any of its resolutions on Iraq, adopted since the first Gulf War, perhaps the U.S. would not have been forced into war. The U.N. has become completely ineffective.

How long has this bloated institution been discussing, debating, and delaying action to stop the slaughter of innocent people in Sudan by government agents? The same government, incidentally, that was chosen to sit on the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission in 2001, while the U.S. was kicked off the Commission."

Need an example of their inefficacy (or just plain lack of interest) in the war against Islamofacism?

Jihad and rape go hand in hand:

"Each of us was raped by between three and six men. � One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us.'
This happened in Darfur, from which Sudanese military personnel actually airlifted women to Khartoum to serve as sex slaves.

Meanwhile, Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan, Russia, reports that 'several 15-year-old girls were raped by terrorists.' Her daughter 'heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away.' This indicates that there are two things the massacre in Beslan has in common with the ongoing massacres in Darfur: both, no less than the 9-11 attacks, are examples of Islamic jihad terrorism, and both are characterized by rape."

Isn't 'peacekeeping' their purpose? Aren't they supposed to quell these pesky squabbles? The UN is an effete, emasculated body that has proved its uselessness time after time and needs to be relieved of our financial support.