The Birthday of United Nations

 Today is the Birthday of United Nations, arguably the world's biggest, bloated bureaucracy which houses a bunch of nincompoom entitlement seekers, famous for their lack of efficiency and accountability. A spineless organization which goes by acronym UN, it has more failures than success on its Balance Sheet ever since its inception post World War II in 1945. 

A sizable amount of its maintenance is born by the American Taxpayers. It's now high time to dissolve and dismantle this junk body, or the United States kicks them out of their own soil. What a blatant waste of prime real estate properties in New York and Washington DC which can be used for far better purpose as UN hardly serves any purpose.

The member nations in United Nations in contrary to the name suggests are hardly united. In spite of tons of money poured into them (mostly American) many poor nations still remain poor, languishing in poverty. Those who have succeeded in moving tens of millions out of poverty (notably China and India), have done so by helping themselves and with some help from private charitable agenies, rather than taking anything remotely from the United Nations.

Not ago Saudi Arabia headed the UN council of Human Rights. Amongst other members is China, another Champion of human rights violation .completing the league of distinguished gentlemen of the so called protectors of Human rights. Its Security Council is used as personal fiefdom of its veto wielding members to further their own selfish agenda. It has hardly achieved any world peace and stability, which was supposed to be the primary goal when the organization was formed 80 years ago.

In June, 1981 following the Israeli strike on the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor on the outskirts of Baghdad, US promptly vetoed any UN resolution to chastise Israel. I still vividly remember this cartoon by R K Laxman on the front page of India's prominent newspaper of the time, The Times Of India, where the UN Secretary General was telling the recalcitrant, mockingly grimacing Israeli PM - "The more you launch such an attack, you will be condemned more severely". It still does the same.

44 years down the road not much has changed. Not long ago Philippines threatens to come out of UN, a trend would be set for more nations to come out of this behemoth global Babudom (bureaucracy). Hopefully it is the harbinger of the demise of this monolithic structure, the sooner the better. Why stick to an institute which after scores of years of existence has far more failures than achievements to its credit ? In my opinion completely getting rid of it is not going to hurt anything. A world without UN will be more or less the same - sans billions of wasted dollars.