It's About That Time...

...to attempt to save the Sudan. Low and behold, the 62-year-old United Nations Security Council, still woefully outdated, always insidiously political, today made an intelligent decision about one of those rare crises that garner universal admonishment: it voted to send the world's largest peacekeeping force into the Sudan. Note the inclusion of an "African Union mandate" in the UNSC's resolution, underlining (or belying?) the sad fact that a [u]regional security force should and could have been given legally-binding permission to go in ages ago[/u], but wasn't, largely because of UNSC politics.

Better late than never, I s'pose....