I don't see it as the ideal solution, because the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, who handles the military side in the UN, admitted a year and a half ago what the numbers have been saying for years: they're incapable of conducting military operations.
What I would see the UN doing, though, is that as they've now reappeared in Iraq.... There's too much emphasis on the military, but that doesn't mean you reduce the military. That means you increase the diplomatic side and the development side, as possible.
Right now, on the diplomatic side, I was delighted with what the Manley report said to the Prime Minister: grab this file and start phoning around to other NATO countries, as opposed to--with all due respect--just the ministers doing it.
That has been done, and it's had some modest--