James Dobbins, you crazy for this one!

Though the United Nations routinely fields such integrated missions, in which the military commander is directly subordinate to the civilian representative of the Secretary General, the Israelis are unlikely to accept a chief of mission from the United Nations.

Israel gets, uh, kind of black-helicoptery about the U.N., something that inclines it well to the post-Jewish style of pro-Israel American politics.

More seriously, CNAS: you are dreaming big dreams like Susan Boyle, and I for one commend you.