The G-15 meeting at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana last week was yet another in a long line of sickening spectacles involving the United Nations. The summit was presided over by disgraced UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and held for the first time in 27 years in the communist dictatorship of Cuba. It was no coincidence that while Annan declined an invitation to meet with Cuban dissidents, he happily rubbed shoulders with Fidel Castro’s despotic successor Raul Castro. Indeed, the summit was attended by a veritable whose-who list of world dictators, terrorist states and tyrants, all of them railing against the United States.

If any further proof was needed that the UN has become nothing more than a gathering place for the enemies of America, Israel and democratic nations in general, then the Havana summit fulfilled that purpose.

This was the focus of a conference held in New York City earlier this month and titled "The UN and Beyond: United Democratic Nations." Sponsored by the Hudson Institute and its subsidiary Eye on the UN and hosted by President Herb London and Senior Fellow Anne Bayefsky, the conference initiated a long overdue discussion about the relevance of the UN in today’s world and the question of continuing American membership. It was fitting that the conference took place in New York City on Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for the backdrop of the war on terrorism was ever present.

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