In his speech to the General Assembly, President Bush showed what the U.N. should be, a platform from which the United States can speak truth to powerlessness.

A review of Pedro Sanjuan's The UN Gang (Doubleday, 2005).

The only practical result of the General Assembly declaring "Palestine" a state will be to move its chair on the side of the Assembly hall a few feet from its present location to be next to the Vatican, the only other "observer state." This is nothing to get excited about.

America's inability to convince the UN Security Council to endorse military action against the regime of Saddam Hussein marked a watershed in U.S. relations with the world body. To some, it signaled the Security Council's flight from responsibility; to others, America's disdain for international opinion. Beyond Iraq lie...

Obama's endorsement of India for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council was a grand rhetorical gesture and risks undercutting the political boost in the U.S.-Indian relationship.

In the end, what the new WikiLeaks documents confirm is that Obama's foreign policy plan is a mess.

It is no surprise that the Middle East, one of our most intractable problems, provokes so much U.N. activity, even though the real-world consequences are so limited.

Assessing President Obama's trip to Asia.