What to Do About the U.N.

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Claudia Rosett. What to Do About the U.N.

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What to Do About the U.N.

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The clarifying question, too often ignored, is one of opportunity cost. If we did not have the U.N., what system, or set of coalitions, might America choose today to create in its place? What opportunities for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been choked off, around the globe, because the U.N. – thanks to the configuration of forces in 1945 – gave veto power on the Security Council to Stalin’s Soviet Union, a privilege since inherited by an increasingly despotic and aggressive post-Soviet Russia?

For instance, would America, starting with a fresh slate, really invent or endorse as the world’s leading human rights body an outfit that – à la U.N. Human Rights Council – routinely welcomes such members as Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela?

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