"Can anyone name an instance where the UN has succeeded?"
Oh, yes, many:
**It has succeeded in taking a load of our taxes and squandering them with no appreciable improvement in any project it has embraced.
**It has provided limitless opportunity for squirrelly, pretentious little gnats from nowhere to live higher than they ever expected or deserved.
**It has provided endless opportunities for pedophiles, rapists, thieves, and cowards to indulge their perverted tastes while parading as heroes.
**It has stood true human rights on its head by faling to recognize the veriest fundamentals of human rights and putting countries the likes of Syria on the HR commission while pretending the US is a chief violator.
I am sure there are other like situations in which it has succeeded; it mainly serves as a stage for playing let's pretend, and the producers/directors of this farce are the same who wrote, produced and directed "The Emperors New Clothes."
vaudine