.:More Begging from the U.S. to the U.N.:.

The plea for help may be a sign "of genuine concern on the part of the United States that things aren't going well," said Christopher Preble, a foreign affairs analyst at the libertarian CATO Institute in Washington. "Before ... I think that U.N. involvement was seen by ... the Bush administration as being more trouble than it was worth."

Oh', gee, ya' think?