Libya, with all your wisdom... teach us how to treat human beings

To them, Rwanda and Darfur was just a dream.

They condemn Israel for targeting vile murderers who lob rockets indiscriminately into schoolyards.

They expect countries like Iran to cease nuclear programs and send their demands on notes dotted with hearts.

But Libya? Here's a country that blows up civilian gathering places in Germany. They conspire to blow up civilian aircraft over Scotland. They shoot their own citizens when the citizens demand freedom.

And yet the United Nations was just a hop, skip and a jump (translation: two weeks) away from praising Libya and sending accolades for "the country’s commitment to upholding human rights on the ground.”

Is it just me or does it make more sense to believe the world is flat than believe the UN is anything but a complete and utter joke that has become completely irrelevant to modern times?

Their stances in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations, fraud to direct environmental policy, nuclear proliferation... is there nothing this organization can't get wrong?

When a machine has broken down so drastically, when a building is rotting to the foundation, when a bridge from where we are to where we want to be is buckling and rattling at every rivet, it's time to face the truth: it makes more sense to tear down and rebuild than to continue throwing up patchwork repairs, adding weight to a structure that has no more stability than a house of cards.