UN GET IT DONE OR GET GONE

In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tony Blair should be named United Nations secretary-general when he steps down as prime minister. "It's a big job that he has right now," Schwarzenegger said, "and I think whatever job he wants he will get, because he has such a great success rate at home and he has done such a remarkable job, I think."

Someone must take over this job. Absolutely humiliating failures in the Balkans and in Africa have led most of the world to question whether the UN has any residual ability or credibility to act to live up to its charter. Now, the Middle East bubbles over. Will it fail again?

Maybe Bolton and Blair could bring it off. It's worth a try. Anything would improve upon the present lack of efficacy.