I personally don't see that, because the UN is the sum of its parts. I know that because it has been said over and over. The fact is that there are five permanent members on the Security Council that dictate the employment of resources within the United Nations. Those five members in 1945 were parked in that Security Council to make sure they didn't fight each other, not to make really brilliant, unanimous decisions. As you know, it has to be unanimous, even though recommendations have been made to have two vetos rather than one among the permanent five. That's the controlling agency. The funds then come from the General Assembly. The UN bureaucracy is always faced with the dilemma of receiving direction that it can then not resource.
The safe havens in Bosnia are a perfect example. When I was asked by the United States congressional committee, where I was appearing as a witness, “General MacKenzie, how many troops to defend the safe havens in Bosnia?” I said “125,000.” “Why so many?” “Well, like a stone in a quiet lake, the ripple effect represents artillery fire. You go out 30Ks, they'll move back 30Ks. You have to go out 30K more to shut down the artillery. You're pacifying the whole country.”
General Briquemont, who was one of my followers in Sarajevo, said “I agree with General MacKenzie; I'll try it with 70,000.” Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General, went in front of the Security Council and pleaded for 27,500. The Security Council approved 12,500, and six months later, 2,000 arrived. So they went back and rewrote the mandate to say that the UN would not defend the safe havens but that the UN, by their presence, would deter attacks on the safe havens, and the result was Srebrenica.
Who is responsible for Srebrenica? Way more than 50%, it was the UN. That hasn't changed. The UN administration is handcuffed by the lack of resources from donating nations, Canada included, and the neanderthal-like decision process among the permanent five members. It used to be that the permanent five members were precluded from conducting operations within the UN mandate. Only the Brits were the exception, with two sovereign bases in Cypress: Akrotiri and Dhekelia. But now they're getting involved in the operations, so they have even more concern and influence within the decision-making process and the Security Council as to where missions go.