FAILING AT WHAT, PRECISELY? ALSO, WHAT PRECISELY DO WE NEED IT FOR? CAN WE SHED THE FANTASIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY PLEASE? IF THERE’S AN IDEA THAT DESERVES BURIAL ALONGSIDE THE IDEA OF THE VIBRANT AND INNOVATIVE PLANNED ECONOMY WITH ITS HAPPY AND FREE PEOPLE, IT’S THE IDEA THAT A WORLD ASSOCIATION OF TYRANTS, KLEPTOCRACIES AND A FEW MORE OR LESS FREE COUNTRIES IS ANYTHING BUT SIX WOLVES AND A SHEEP DISCUSSING WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER:  The United Nations is failing the world when we need it most.

If there’s some need for the UN it’s a stupid, nay surreal need. Kind of like a desperate necessity for violinists in a war zone.