If it seems like the whole sprawling United Nations apparatus is not all that alarmed by the discovery that its associates have lent aid and support to terrorists, that impression is reinforced by the degree to which the U.N.’s organs are engaged in the same project. …

The United Nations long ago reached its sell-by date. It serves only to lend diplomatic cover to rogue states, revisionist great powers, and the terroristic non-state actors in their orbit. Its primary purpose is to tie the hands of responsible diplomatic nations committed to the pleasant fiction that geopolitics is something that happens in talk shops on Turtle Bay. It absorbs exorbitant sums of American taxpayers’ dollars only to spit in their faces. The institution is worse than worthless. The U.S. pays for the privilege of having its interests undermined while lending a portion of its legitimacy to a wholly illegitimate institution. That’s a bad deal. It’s time to cut our losses.

[It’s at least time to kick them out of the US as a terror-enabling international organization. Close Turtle Bay and turn it into low-to-middle-income housing. The United Nations used to just be useless; now it openly and defiantly provides material and political support for the worst regimes. If Switzerland wants to host its headquarters, fine, but we should have already put our last dollar into this corrupt organization. — Ed]