I never ceased to be amazed at the fact that there is a persistent view that the way to reform bureaucracies is by making them bigger. The problem with the UN is that they don’t do anything. Didn’t in Rwanda, didn’t in Somalia, didn’t in Iraq, didn’t in Sudan, etc etc etc.

And the reform is geared to making it LESS likely that things get done to stop say, UNSCAM. The same is true about the 9/11 reforms you can read about in NR’s article here.

Reform is one of those pretty words that politicians throw around when they want to grow an agency and make it even LESS effective.