If the League criticized your behavior, you could simply walk out of it without any negative consequences. It could cajole and criticize, but it could not really compel anyone to do anything. Oh sure, there was a League of Nations, but it lacked any real enforcement mechanisms. To FDR and his advisors, the outbreak of World War II-the years of letting dictators like Hitler and Mussolini run wild with their aggressive schemes-was directly attributable to the lack of any international organization that could block them. And we can only make that case by going back to the history of World War II-the origins, course, and legacy of the war.Īs Americans, we sometimes forget who invented the UN: none other than our great wartime president, Franklin D.
And yet, there is still a case to be made for the UN, as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the organizational charter. We’d be better off going it alone, etc.Īll valid criticisms, as far as they go. America hosts it (on hyper-expensive New York real estate, no less) and winds up footing most of the bill. If you’ve lived long enough in America, you’ve heard the litany of anti-UN complaints: the organization is too expensive. That’s actually down from a decade ago, when nearly two-thirds of Americans had the same negative view, but it’s still too high, in my opinion. According to a February 2020 Gallup poll, 54 percent of the US population thought the UN was doing a “poor job” in solving global problems. A lot of Americans don’t seem to like the United Nations all that much.
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