In answer to the title question, Mrs. Kirkpatrick had certainly been doing her best for the past four years. On this show, she gives a pellucid account of the dynamics of that institution (things one hadn't thought of: "Using the veto in the Security Council is a mark of lack of political clout. If you've got political influence then you can persuade more than six nations in the Security Council not to vote for the resolution you're against and you don't need to veto it") and a novel defense of our continued membership ("The reason we should not withdraw from the UN is that our Declaration of Independence requests us to have a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. Now there's no doubt that it would be a terrible, terrible affront to the opinions of mankind for the U.S. to withdraw from the UN").