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sacred cow, but rather as a troika composed of a white elephant, a Trojan horse, and a Judas goat."5 The
supermarket tabloid Star, while not exactly a consistently reliable heavyweight in the news and analysis
category, expressed the sentiments of a large and growing segment of the American people with a
November 3, 1981 article by Steve Dunleavy entitled, "Rip Down This Shocking Tower of Shame."
In March of 1982, syndicated columnist Andrew Tully authored a piece headlined: "[Mayor] Koch
Should Chase UN Out of Town."6 Many similar articles and editorials could be cited, but perhaps one of
the most surprising was the August 24, 1987 cover story by Charles Krauthammer for The New
Republic, entitled "Let It Sink: The Overdue Demise of the United Nations."
But the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev’s "new thinking" in the late 1980s coincided with the beginning of
a remarkable rehabilitation in the public’s image of the UN. First Gorbachev, and then Boris Yeltsin,
won plaudits for reversing the traditional Soviet (or Soviet surrogate) practice of using the UN as a
venue for strident anti-American diatribes. Yassir Arafat and his PLO terrorists dropped their regular
anti-Israel philippics. And the UN’s "peacekeepers" won a Nobel Prize and worldwide praise for their
roles as mediators in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Central America, Southern Africa, and the Middle East.
Then came Operation Desert Storm, the holy war against the aggression of Saddam Hussein. And
mirabile dictu, the United Nations was once again the world’s "last best hope for peace." Suddenly UN
"peacekeepers" began to appear almost everywhere — with more than 40,000 troops in the field in
Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America, and the Middle East7 — and every new day now brings new
appeals for the world body’s intervention and "expertise."
On United Nations Day 1990, a new Gallup Poll indicated that "American support for the United
Nations ... is higher than it has been in over 20 years." According to the national polling organization,
"Fifty-four percent of Americans now think the United Nations has done a good job of solving the
problems it has had to face...." The poll cited the "rapprochement between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.,
and the dissolution of the Iron Curtain," as well as the developing Persian Gulf situation, as major
factors contributing to the enhancement of the UN’s image.8
Gallup reported that "almost six out of ten Americans think that the U.N. has been effective in helping
deal with the current [Iraq-Kuwait] crisis, with only 8% saying that the U.N. has not been at all
effective." Even more disturbing, if accurate, is the poll finding that 61 percent of those surveyed
thought it a good idea to build up the United Nations emergency force to "a size great enough to deal
with ‘brush fire’ or small wars throughout the world."9
The euphoria following the Persian Gulf hostilities temporarily boosted George Bush’s approval rating
to an all-time high for any president. Rude economic realities and an accumulating number of political
problems then caused his star to plummet just as rapidly as it had risen. The UN’s gains, however,
appear to have been more durable. As reported by Richard Morin ("U.N. Real Winner After Gulf War,"
Salt Lake Tribune, January 24, 1992), a survey by the Americans Talk Issues Foundation "found that
approval for the United Nations actually increased from 66 percent in June to 78 percent in November
[1991], a period when other measures of war-induced euphoria were sinking fast."
The Tribune reported:
[H]alf of those questioned — 51 percent — agreed that "the U.S. should abide by all World
Court decisions, even when they go against us, because this sets an example for all nations
to follow." That was up from 42 percent in May.