In the Wall Street Journal, Kofi Annan wrote "Our Mission Remains Vital". My letter to the WSJ editor says:
The UN "makes no distinctions between governments which represent their people and governments which use the instruments of state power to repress and exploit their people." Carroll Andrew Morse, at www.techcentralstation.com, continues, "The United Nations is the trade association for the world's executive branches -- the place where executive branches come together to promote their individual interests to one another, and to promote the expansion of executive authority in general. ... Once it is understood that the United Nations is a trade association for the promotion of executive authority, its behavior becomes almost rational."
For Kofi Annan's next column, ask him to write how the United Nations can recover from the accommodations necessary to form the United Nations 60 years ago. [See the United Nations Charter, Chapter 1, Article 2, Paragraph 7.]
