The United States signaled late Thursday that it may support, after weeks of negotiations, a resolution by the United Nations Security Council calling for an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Before they vote on the resolution, though, diplomats in Turtle Bay — perhaps too young, or, alternatively, too old, to remember — calling for the creation of a new United Nations bureaucracy to speed up the aid would do well to remember that they have been down this road before — under the now-infamous name of oil-for-food.