countries will have to reckon—media agencies will have to reckon—with their major role in the genocide

“Hey, we maybe got it wrong, moving on we will never talk of this again.”

The reason why the world does not get better is that it is too easy for humans to refuse to learn from their mistakes. If another false dossier about Weapons of Mass Destruction came out about a country that it would be cool to go and blow up, as happened with Bush and Blair and Iraq, I don’t think enough people would learn from the past to put a stop to it. It’s more ‘patriotic’ to just go with the flow.