End of the UN? Americans Are Waking Up
“The United Nations long ago reached its sell-by date,” wrote National Review columnist Noah Rothman for NR Daily recently, arguing for the United States to withdraw from the organization.
Of course, this has been the view of The John Birch Society (the parent organization of The New American) since its founding in 1958. On the other hand, calling for the American exit from the UN has been a position that relatively few, even on the more conservative side of American politics, have taken until recently. In fact, the JBS position was dismissed as wrong — even extreme — by magazines such as National Review.
To be fair, the UN and its agencies have been criticized by National Review in the past. For example, in 2018, Jimmy Quinn, the magazine’s national security correspondent, castigated the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for including Cuba, Russia, and China as members while criticizing Israel’s human rights record. Quinn condemned the hypocrisy of the UNHRC for its failure to issue a resolution against Communist China, despite it holding an estimated one million political prisoners. But calling for actual withdrawal from the UN is new, and long overdue.
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