Few institutions have fared as badly in recent years as the United Nations. Freed from the incapacitating effects of Cold War confrontation, the U.N. sought in the `90s to become relevant in a world where international cooperation was superficially the new norm. The result was a remarkable losing streak of "peacekeeping" operations costing hundreds of thousands of lives and a corrupt "humanitarian relief" program in Iraq.
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