Is the UN a Joke?

So do you guys who are calling out an "impotent, joke-empowered" UN really want an international body with the legal, and perhaps military, power to force your countries to do things it didn't want to do?

I could personally get behind that in the right circumstances, but I'm betting most of the users criticising the weakness of the UN would go livid over such a thing. And you'd never even coax some of our "troublesome" countries to that kind of table. Whereas the UN can get people together and occasionally do something.

Just be honest and don't call for a stonger UN; say you don't think it's worth money we could be shovelling into more practical matters.

Jam it back in, in the dark.