But the sainted international community has decided that the situation just isn't bad enough yet to get their blessing:
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention in the West African state, where al Qaeda-linked militants control significant territory.
Mali's neighbors have been seeking U.N. backing for armed intervention to stabilize the country. ...
The French-drafted resolution said the council "expresses its readiness to further examine the request of ECOWAS once additional information has been provided regarding the objectives, means and modalities of the envisaged deployment."
Perhaps the French want clear limits to what is expected of them.
But while the UN Security Council waits for further information, more jihadis will flow to the area. And a bad situation will get worse.
Maybe enough people will die to get the UNSC's full attention. I mean, eventually the jihadis will run out of historically significant artifacts to destroy. (Gosh, remember when the looting of Iraq's museums--a looting that largely didn't happen, as it turns out--was a condemnation of Bush's Iraq invasion?)
Or France might just go in, anyway, I suppose. France under a socialist government, by definition, can do no wrong in the eyes of the sainted international community.
