Right now, the UN remains the world's best and only hope that the people of this planet can move out of the Dark Ages, and transcend the parochial and patriarch tyrannical rule that has dominated the planet since the late Middle Ages.

These are holy wars, to be sure. But both the US/UK empire and the Islamic empire, are doing all they can to drag us back, kicking and screaming, into the darkness.

The UN is far from a perfect organization. And it has certainly had it's failures. But given the alternative, which is ALL we are being given right now in the Middle East--where the people are being plunged back into a bizarre, quasi-modern perpetual state of Crusade-like war, corruption, and despotism, I'll stand by the UN thank you very much.