When air strikes are called again and finally approved by the U.N. bureaucrats, NATO planes are foiled by weather, and a British Sea Harrier jet is shot down. The pinprick attacks fail even to achieve the minimal logic of tit for tat. They become tit for tat - when the weather is good and Akashi is in the mood. Procedures have since been streamlined, but procedure is not the problem. Beyond tactics, moreover, the U.N. has no strategy.
Nothing holds the pieces together.
This lack of objectives is not the fault of the U.N. bureaucracy. Strategy is not its business. That must come from the Great Powers. The Gulf War was a success because it was clear to all that the U.S. was going to liberate Kuwait even if it had to go it alone. Join us if you will, but we won't waver.