Why does everyone complain about how the UN doesn't seem to be able to perform miracles?

It is an organization made up of countries who are trying to work with one another to do the following things:

• Serve as a forum to set a global agenda;
• Build consensus on contentious issues;
• Set standards for nations to live by;
• Play the role of honest broker;
• Keep fighting parties apart;
• Help bring justice to those discriminated against;
• Deliver humanitarian assistance and ensure access to food, medicine, education and health care;
• Improve living conditions and alleviate poverty;
• Pursue a vigorous development agenda.

It can only do that with the cooperation of each of it's member countries. It isn't a miracle working organization. Why doesn't the Africian League get rid of Mugabe?

Why doesn't the Catholic Church go into Burma and order the leaders to let them help the people?

Because there are no easy solutions to these problems. If it were easy to get rid of dictators and make sure that everyone had food it wouldn't be a constant problem. And we wouldn't need the UN.

It is too bad that the UN cannot wave a magic wand and make all the world's problems go away, but it's made of people and people are flawed and limited.

What should we do? Should the UN go away because it's not perfect? Is better to have no cooperation because the cooperation we have is limited?