The End Is Not Near, Cont.

Can the United Nations do anything right? The surprising answer, in light of the U.N.‘s failures in Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda during the 1990s, may be “yes.” East Timor’s new government takes over from the U.N. on Monday, and as The Washington Post notes, East Timor’s leaders “are saying something that few other beneficiaries of U.N. governance ever have: The international effort to reincarnate their country has been a success.”