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I think that the Food for Oil scandal will make or break the UN- and so far it doesn't look good for the UN.
I would say the key to the UN being successful depends on it's International Court of Justice. What this court needs is a "Justice Marshall" :
"One action was the Louisiana Purchase, by which — for a mere $15 million dollars — Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of west-reaching land for the United States. The other, less celebrated, action was a decision handed down by John Marshall, the new Chief Justice of a Supreme Court far less powerful than the one today. It was called Marbury v. Madison, and it asserted, and thus created a precedent, that the Supreme Court has the right to declare unconstitutional a law passed by Congress and signed by the President, a ruling that reverberates to this day. "
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/nov98/marshall.html

What I mean is the court needs grab this Food for Oil problem, and by doing so, transform the International Court of Justice- and the UN. Frankly, I seriously doubt that this court has the leadership which are up to the task.
Instead all the bureaucrats will choose the slow death- that's what they always do.
I think that if Kerry was elected, the US congress will probably stop funding the UN. And without being adquately addressed the Food for Oil scandal will stop all efforts at reforming the UN. And the UN dies rather quickly.
Now, I doubt Kerry is going to be elected. But Bush nor the US govt can do anything to solve the UN's problems, so the UN will linger on with any action of reform stalled, and the Oil for Food scandal being anchor around it's neck which is inescapable.

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