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>I'll start with this:
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,2763,926815,00.html
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>The senior western envoy in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, read a letter from the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, who called for those responsible to be caught and said the failure to prevent the atrocity would "haunt our history forever".

And your point is????

Let me assume, knowing you'll correct me if I'm wrong, that you're saying that once a failure has been demonstrated then nothing good can ever come again.

If that's correct, then what country or organization qualifies for the kind of work mandated to the U.N.?