That would be a very useful step. The difficulty is that we have not really managed to create a SHIRBRIG that is effective. To try to create one that was culturally sensitive for different areas of the world would be even harder. There's no guarantee, of course, that at any point the Security Council would be able to muster support for deployment of such a brigade.
It's hard to make this work. It's hard to have the United Nations work as an effective organization in these areas. Every time, we find ourselves cobbling together a force to meet specific needs, and we go to those countries that are willing—to be blunt—to sell their troops to the United Nations for the fee that the UN pays countries for their troops. Countries such as Bangladesh and others basically earn a large part of their foreign funds by deploying troops. This is not necessarily a recipe for effectiveness.
