>That's sophistry. If you keep focusing on Bosnia and Kosovo and convert consideration of the "Iraq experience" into a story about Bosnia and Kosovo as if a valid previous justification becomes a justification forever, I guess we can expect to see the same thing over and over again.

The United Nations failed miserably in both Bosnia and Rwanda, and this by it's own admission:

Bosnia:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/unbos.htm

Rwanda:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/un99.htm

While I couldn't find any references to internal U.N. reports about it's actions, lack thereof, in Kosovo, I think we all know that it wasn't the U.N. that stopped the ethnic cleansing there.

Now, after those three pretty glaring cases of ineffectiveness by the U.N., you think we should wait for it to act? Like I wrote... insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.