US to leave the UN?

[Copernicus]

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The Us will not leave the UN.
Instead it will use it when it serves there purpose and ignore it when it doesnt.

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ie ignore it 100% of the time, but still fund it? It will never be beneficial to an important US purpose in your lifetime, much less mine.

[AlexM]

The UN doesn't have a ton of power, but in many ways it acts as a world government, and this is unacceptable. If it were simply an organization for us to talk to other countries, that would be fine, but when they try forcing countries to follow their rules of what they see as right and wrong, that's no good. Also, we give the UN obscene amounts of money, and that needs to stop.

[GermanGuy]

The UN does not have the power to force the US or any other country to implement any of their decisions. (see Kyoto or the International Court of Justice). The only thing that comes close to "forcing" power is the security council, but that can't stop a country like the US to go to war (okay, maybe it would have needed some more power to let UN inspectors look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...).
In economic matters the UN does have a big influence, but that only on countries that get money from Worldbank or IMF so, that should not be a problem for the US.

So the UNs problem is precisely that it is only an organization where countries "talk to each other" and not that it has to much influence.

[fun160]

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Why would anyone want the US to leave the UN?

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For the same reason you don't hold someone's dick while they piss on you.