Now's the Time to Rein in a Failed United Nations

"We are the chief funder of a swollen, unaccountable UN apparatus that has been a gross disappointment going on more than 70 years now...

It turned out that states with different interests and values weren't going to act as a band of righteous international enforcers. In fact, as demonstrated in Rwanda and the Balkans, when confronted by hideously predatory forces bent on mayhem and murder, UN peacekeepers would simply stand aside.

In the decades after the UN's founding, the influence of Third World dictatorships grew and so did the institution's anti-Western and anti-Israel orientation, culminating in the Zionism resolution that US Ambassador to the UN Moyhihan so memorably inveighed against. That vote was finally reversed in 1991, but prejudice against Israel has become one of the organization's core competencies - as well as impenetrable bureaucracy...

We pay more than anyone else to keep the United Nations in business, about 22 percent of the UN's regular budget. As Brett Schaeffer of the Heritage Foundation notes, 'the US is assessed more than 176 other UN member states combined.'...

We should withhold some significant portion of it, and demand an end to the UN's institutional hostility to Israel and the implementation of reforms to increase the organization's accountability..."