Idealizing the U.N.

A tragic reminder for those who've come to idealize the U.N. umbrella as a contrast to American unilateralism:

Thousands of people have attended a mass funeral in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica for the victims of one of Europe's worst massacres.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the UN's failure to prevent the atrocity would "haunt our history forever."