Reading the newspapers over the past few weeks I have become aware of a massive groundswell of disillusionment regarding the United Nations.
Comments such as:
While the ISG report provides embarrassing reading for all those who actively participated in Saddam's scam, the real victim is the UN itself, whose claim to the moral high ground when confronting rogue regimes and dictators now lies in tatters.
and:
Yet the lofty words were made to an audience somewhat lacking in firepower. There was no American president this time, or secretary of state. Instead a junior official was dispatched.
For the UN's backers, this provided damning evidence that the Bush administration was determined to sour the party atmosphere. But six decades after the world created the UN to stifle war and to protect the rights of man, the organisation is in serious trouble.
The world body is still staggering from a series of scandals. Some now question its future. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/27/wun27.xml
are only the tip of the iceberg.
A Google search on Oil-for-food or UN debacles reveals a catalogue of corruption and ineptitude on a massive scale.
Many are calling for an end to the UN.
While I think it unlikely that the UN will be disbanded, reform may make it unrecognizable from the entity that exists today.
I was wondering though, considering the pivotal role the UN plays in the WT's prophecies, what a shock it would be to JWs if the UN DID go under!!!