Platonic fudgery

The Economist has a brilliant bit of writing on that farcical United Nations resolution "condemning" the sinking of that South Korean warship:

The Security Council's statement is strongly worded, in a strange way, though ultimately toothless. True to form for the UN, it is designed to pacify everyone, but will end up truly satisfying no one. In an almost Platonically ideal example of fudgery, the wording of the statement condemns the incident (which it does at least identify as an "attack"), but places the blame on nobody in particular. 

Concise, funny, and true. Don't you wish you could write like that? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford