I am greatly enjoying watching our "dumb, cowboy" President indelibly underscoring what his Euro critics and Democrap critics have not previously admitted: the UN 'emperor' has no clothes.
The Third World long has cynically used the UN (along with plenty of help from Ford/Rockefeller Foundation-financed Marxist 'NGO's") as a means to undermine U.S. policies and sovereignty. Daschle and his crew play the same game, insisting that the U.S. get U.N. 'permission' to do what our own Constitution demands that we do.
It appears to me that young Bush and his advisers have neatly turned the tables on all of them. Iraq has not only ignored previous U.N. resolutions but has announced IN ADVANCE! it will ignore any new ones. The U.N. is powerless and irrelevant, as you say. And it's hilarious to watch Daschle and his cronies get apoplexy trying to use this dysfunctional organization as cover for their anti-U.S. positions.
It really doesn't matter whether we resign from the U.N. or merely ignore it. Without our cooperation and active financial support it will become more of an international bad joke than it already is. It will wither and die, as it should have years ago.
His strategery with the UN has been the same as with Arafat: give 'em enough rope to hang themselves. And it's working beautifully in both cases.