So the U.N. is squeamish about protecting Iraq's Kurds from Saddam Hussein's vengeance. So what else is new? When has the U.N. ever risked insulting a country's leader by moving unilaterally to protect the lives and welfare of the people? Never, that's when.
"Ah, you see," explained a U.N. official last week as he gleefully paraphrased George Bush, "what goes on inside Iraq is an internal matter. Technically, under international law, the Kurds aren't refugees at all. They are displaced persons."
The lesson here is an old one: There are always enough legalisms to justify inaction. The converse, of course, is...
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