Here's an example as to why the UN is a joke

[Occhidiangela]

Stop whining!
Unlike you say, the US usually does not pay its contribution. Moreover, you have a veto-right....even when you don't care about most resolution. If the US would be really fare they would just step out of the UN.
It is very easy to have critisism, but not very credible with the terms.

Way to lie through your teeth, eppie.

The US contribution to the peacekeeping bill for the UN was being assessed at 25% of the whole peacekeeping budget, and was in dispute for a few years by our Congress. It has since been renegotiated down 22%, due to the UN bureaucracy's complete inability to act in a fiscally responsible manner with funds sent. The "regular membership dues" was never in dispute. Would you care to discuss how China has managed to dodge a re-evaluation percentage share of the UN's operationg costs, despite having one of the largest GDP's on the planet?

"Usually doesn't pay" is sheerest horsesh**. From inception to today, who has payed the lion's share of UN expenses? It sure as hell isn't the Netherlands. Put a sock in it until you get your numbers straight, rather than repeating a blatant falsehood.

Need I mention, year after year, missions undertaken, at costs in the billions, in support of UN goals and missions (see the Sinai peacekeeping force as one data point, feed the starving morons of Somalia for another) but not explicitly under "Security Council ordered and controlled" operations.

If you keep repeating a lie often enough, eppie, you might start to believe it. That doesn't make it true.

Occhi