We could go back to the days before the League of Nations was formed. You know, when it was every nation for itself, there was no international law and security was dependent on intricate webs of treaties.

That security would fall apart when, say, an Archduke was shot in Sarajevo triggering a series of events that ended with millions of people dying.

The UN does suck sometimes. But it beats the living hell out of the alternative.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn’t created to take you to heaven. - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.