UN Useless on Sudan, Again?

The Christian Science Monitor has up a pretty good editorial on the Sudan situation and the inability of the UN to really deal with it.

Once again, the UN's reputation is on the line, as it was in recent crises over Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. Its members have conflicting interests in Sudan, from buying oil exports to not wanting to offend the Muslim world by "invading" Sudan so soon after the US occupied Iraq. How much will those interests be laid aside for the sake of thousands of people?

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? When the U.N. is unwilling to take action on this clear and present genocide is it any wonder that we had to go it alone in Iraq?