Mysterious UN Reform Study

Today's LA Times details a new UN report that attempts to get the organization restabilized. It apparently acknowledges the UN has an obligaion to uphold "the international community's duty to intervene in any state where the government is unable or unwilling to protect its people," yet finds a way to continue to dismiss Saddam's Iraq as a legitimate target for such intervention.

Interestingly, it proposes to expand the Security Council, adding (probably) Japan, Germany, Brazil and India as permanent members and two more rotating members. Alternatively, six non-permanent members would be added, based on their financial and military support for the UN. No word on whether nations like Sudan would be able to continue to chair the UN's human rights committee.