I found a great page a couple weeks ago via mefi called the hidden history of the united nations, which is a real public service. The United Nations didn’t start after the war: “The “United Nations” had been the official name for the coalition fighting the axis powers since January 1942, when Roosevelt and Churchill had led twenty-six nations, including the Soviet Union and China, in a ‘Declaration by United Nations’. ” So what do you think eisenhower would have said to the chickenhawks who denigrate the U.N. whose color he wore on his very shoulder while he fought the nazis for the soul of the west? This page is a must-read, and strong riposte anytime you find yourself talking to someone who wants to be rid of the U.N. And if they say, well, it’s not the u.n. it should be, or used to be, or some such mush: fix them with a gimlet eye and ask “whose fault is that?” repeat, louder and louder, until they flee to the Führerbunker.