The UN: Should It be Disbanded?

Many people say that the U.N. isn’t performing it’s duty, but the U.N.’s initial goal was to prevent world war three from happening, and it has a 100% success rate in doing so. Many people believe that the U.N. should be replaced with another organization that will specify in human rights, but facts show that no other organization get’s as high results as the U.N. does with such a small budget. Many people say the U.N. isn’t experienced, but it is one of the oldest organizations of it’s kind. It has made many mistakes but they were not in vain. The U.N. has learned from it’s past mistakes, and it has enriched itself with the ability to better help the world. Others say that the United nations has become irrelevant or ineffective, but the millions of people that have been saved and still are being saved by the U.N. don’t think so. An organization that is educating, healing and protecting millions of people around the world does not qualify as irrelevant.

The U.N. has and still will achieve great humanitarian efforts. Throughout the years it has helped people all around the world. From Darfur to Hurricane Kathrina, the U.N. was always there. It combined civilian and military resources to form one great organization. The U.N. needs more power to do their job. All members of the U.N. should respect its laws and rules, and grave sanctions should be given to the nations who disobey. Some people believe the U.N. should be disbanded, because they say it’s not successful in what it does, or that it costs a lot of money, but study’s have shown that two out of three U.N. missions are successful, and The price of an average of 24 U.N. missions for one year is 5 billions dollars. This is how much the U.S. spends in one month in Iraq.The question we must ask ourselves is what other entity combines civilian, military aid and 60 years of experience for only 5 billion dollars a year ?

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