The United Nations (U.N.). Has it become irrelevant?

This piece from The Wall Street Journal sure makes me think so.

The U.N. and Comrade Bob

As with Darfur and Burma, the depredations of Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe have become a target of the world's moral outrage. Also like those two countries, the chances of anyone doing something about Zimbabwe are falling into the diplomatic abyss that is the United Nations. [More...]