The United Nations is a useless organization in that it does not live up to its mission statements.

I now understand why Syria was referenced as it was, so thank you for explaining that. And I know that a full scale attack isn't the only options, but at this point with what is happening there, and the threat of chemical warfare, a small "Bin laden" style attack might not work. If we only take out there main leaders, that would still open up the possibility of martyrdom. You have to understand, if we don't take out the whole regime, their followers and those who want to be like them could still access the weapons they had and use them to scale an attack on the people that took out the people they idolized. Wether or not Syria is taking advantage of its allies shouldn't matter in our actions. In as much that if we truly believe that what we are doing is right, than it shouldn't matter who Syria is influencing. And those that they are influencing shouldn't allow themselves to succumb to the influence of those using chemical weapons against innocent people within their own society. I'm not saying that we should only give those leaders a slap on the wrist, and in my opinion Russia should be punished for coercing with that regime in the ways that it has. But any sort of attack albeit small could lead to extremely severe repercussions that many countries in the United Nations are not prepared to handle at this current juncture. The failure of first example, the proliferation treaty, lies in many reasons. You only mentioned that a few countries continued to develop nuclear weapons. But none of the countries used them. The fault does not lie in the United Nations as a whole but in the governments of each individual country for not taking their actions more seriously. And many people are taking steps towards stopping sex abuse and the child trafficking around the world, so it is inaccurate to portray it as though everyone is refusing to take steps towards fixing it. Have you ever heard of Nicholas D. Kristof? His book, "Half the Sky" is dedicated to showing the work that he and many other foundations have done to stop these horrible things from happening. In reference to the Cold War, the United Nations can't fix every single problem. The Cold War was the result of a great deal of lack of communication or miscommunication and fear. And those problems were eventually fixed. Unfortunately we did allow Stalin to be extremely cruel to his own people but in some way there is a meaning to that. We, the United States as as nation, can't be expected to fix every other countries problems. We're not the worlds police force. As for the security counsel, the five permanent members have the right to vetoe due to the fact that they are the strongholds of the world and have a greater amount of people. And the underlining agendas can enact vetoes yes, but they can't stop each country from acting on their own accord. If say France felt strongly about this than they should do something by themselves no matter what Russia thinks. I'm not going to contest how awful of a situation the Rwanda genocide is. Because bottom line no person should be killed in such a matter for any reason. A pattern I've noticed, is that in every incident you've mentioned you highlight the fact that the United Nations only does for personal gain. Simply based on what it is, the United Nations can't have personal gain. The main goal of the United Nations is to help countries achieve peace and freedom. But peace is almost impossible to attain. So we can't blame the organization that's trying to help them every time that a country slips up and something bad happens. The United Nations is a highly complex organization that brings together over 190 countries to try and make the world a better place. Do you honestly think that having however many representatives from those countries in one room and trying to get them to agree on how to achieve peace is an easy task? Because I can barely agree with my siblings. The United Nations is an originization that is striving for something almost unnatinable but in doing so, they are also making the world a better place taking small steps at a time. Wether that starts with stopping female gender equality in the Middle East, or the conflict in Syria, we need to support the United Nations because we all want the same thing in the end. We all want peace and safety.