the UN and the USA

     Someone wrote in a letter/comment that the United States should get out of the United Nations because we shouldn't have to be the world's policeman. The writer completely missed the point--of the United Nations and why the United States should remain a member. The United Nations was founded to represent all of the countries (nations) in the world, and to help countries settle disputes with one another. When the United Nations decides on armed intervention in a conflict, member states are asked to contribute troops. The troops will be under the command of United Nations officers. The United States has refused this more than once--our country would not put American troops under UN command.  The United States has instead fought foreign wars on its own, without the help and direction of the UN. When the United States decides to let the UN make the decisions, and to send troops only as part of a UN mission, we will have stopped trying to be the "world's policeman"--or the world's superhero--and become a part of more mature group decision making.