totil,

If this is the Dark Ages here, than the rest of the world would benefit from the Dark Ages. By the way, what's the unemployment rate for Iceland?

Wolf,

I am currently reading Ayn Rand's "Philosophy: Who Needs It" which is a collection of her essays. In 1971, on page 212, Ms. Rand wrote:

"The terrible hoax of the United Nations has failed. Americans were never enthusiastic about that institution, but they gave it the benefit of the doubt for too long. The current polls, however, indicate that the majority have turned against the U.N. (better late than never)."

Parenthesis included by Ms. Rand. I only provide this quote to prove that America has a history of thinking of the U.N. as irrelevant. It is not, necessarily because they disagree with us about Iraq.