The UN? Eh...

The UN's goals and ambitions are certainly ideal, but they are too idealistic. By promising to ensure world peace, the UN burdens itself with the problems of the world. It hopes to act as a type of "world police" that brings countries together (or apart) and tension to an end. However, the UN can only do so much as to determine nations and ensure their peace. In a sense, by intervening so much in international affairs, the UN limits other countries' freedom to self-determine. After all, doesn't that defy the very cardinal rule of the UN Charter?