Opinion of the United Nations

[The Mikado]

The successful campaign against smallpox, the nearer-by-the-day campaign against malaria, childhood vaccinations, education, care, etc via UNICEF...how the hell can someone dislike this organization?

[The Mikado]

The United Nations does nothing more than serve as a forum for undemocratic, totalitarian governments to push their radical agenda on the rest of the world. 

Having seen some of the work of UNICEF, UNHCR, UNAIDS and other UN organisations in Malawi, I confess that it eludes me how they do "nothing more than serve as a forum for undemocratic, totalitarian governments to push their radical agenda on the rest of the world".

I'll admit that they're far from perfect, but there's no doubt that there are many people here who are better fed, better educated, better cared for and simply better off than would be the case were the UN not here.

Please do help me with understanding how actually this is all a plot by UN evildoers to facilitate a radically undemocratic and totalitarian agenda.

The successful campaign against smallpox, the nearer-by-the-day campaign against malaria, childhood vaccinations, education, care, etc via UNICEF...how the hell can someone dislike this organization?

Glad to see my opinion backed up by an authority. 

[The Mikado]

A pointless way of spending a lot of time, energy, and money to obtain very meager results.

Again, the eradication of smallpox doesn't quite seem meager to me.

It does to me, when the purpose of the organization is to avoid international conflict.  That's like saying Obama isn't a terrible president because he made a half-court shot while shooting hoops one day.

Is that the purpose, though?  Humanitarian aid and health programs like UNICEF and WHO have been part of the UN for quite some time.  I think there's a real divide in thread between people that judge the UN by the bulls**t puppet theater of the General Assembly and the people like me that judge the UN by what it actually does with UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, and so on.