(via Instapundit)  Charles Krauthammer agrees that some of the core ideologies embodied in the UN turn the whole thing into a massive farce.   Particularly, one-nation/one-vote and group identity recognition.  An example:

America goes courting Guinea, Cameroon and Angola in search of the nine Security Council votes necessary to pass our new resolution on Iraq.

The absurdity of the exercise mirrors the absurdity of the United Nations itself. Guinea is a perfectly nice place and Guineans perfectly nice people. But from the dawn of history to the invention of the United Nations, it made not an ounce of difference what a small, powerless, peripheral country thought about a conflict thousands of miles away. It still doesn't, except at the Alice-in-Wonderland United Nations, where Guinea and Cameroon and Angola count.

"But if the US, UK, and France get to have seats on the Security Council, why not Guinea, Cameroon, and Angola?   Equality demands it!"