Kofi Annan Says UN Not Really All That Good at Peacekeeping

Okay, he didn't say that exactly. Here's what he did say:

"We must do better," Annan says. "We must develop the responsibility to protect into a powerful international norm that is not only quoted but put into practice, whenever and wherever it is needed."

Granted, I'm no ambassador, but I'm pretty sure that's Standard Diplomatic for "We suck at peacekeeping." Or maybe that's what this means:

"Above all we must not wait to take action until genocide is actually happening, by which time it is often too late to do anything effective about it."

Or maybe not. Perhaps I'm just confused by the seeming similarity between Standard Diplomatic and English, which everybody knows are not the same language at all.

Maybe this means "the UN sucks at peacekeeping."

The news comes just a day after the UN was forced to evacuate all non-essential staff from El-Fasher, a major town in north Darfur, amid soaring violence between Janjaweed militias and armed rebel units.

But that's not something Kofi said. It's something he did.

And, how come no one's asking where the Janjaweed got all those shiny new 4x4's?