Monday, May 14, 2012

The United Nations: Do Americans still hate it?

The United Nations has never been America’s most popular institution, and it has received its worst ratings on record in the past decade. It’s derided as giving a platform for two-bit dictators and being a useless, inefficient bureaucracy — see John Bolton’s famous quote (“The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”). To make matters worse, the United Nations is often tasked with the remit of solving the world’s most intractable problems — from ending poverty to stopping wars.

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