cowardice:
As the prosecution of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resumes today, I am forced to wonder why the International Court of Justice, or the UN Security Council are not actively pursuing Saddam Hussein. Milosevic is charged with genocide in the Bosnian war, and in Kosovo. Writing in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof points out: “Slobodan Milosevic was indicted when he was still in power, in 1999. The indictment was one factor that helped result in his ouster from power in 2000. And in 2001 he was sent to The Hague for trial.” Following his overthrow, the United Nations and the Hague Tribunal undertook intense efforts to track down and arrest Milosevic.
Certainly, Milosevic faces serious charges on many accounts. Shouldn’t Saddam Hussein also be held accountable? Saddam has initiated two wars, making him culpable of agression. Hussein is directly responsible for the genocide of thousands of Kurds, and the sustained systematic torture, assasination, and execution of political prisoners. Saddam is a bloodier Tyrant than Milosevic ever was, and presents a greater danger to the world. Why then do European policy-makers refuse to act? Perhaps Jon Bennett offers a partial response: “Because the Europeans fear them [him]. They fear rising oil prices, increases of Muslim terror inside their borders, and especially, protests from angry idiot hippies, who see any action against any non-White nation as modern day Colonialism.”
Certainly, “Nuremberg was not a substitute for D-day.”, and I do pretend that we can oust Saddam from his palace via the court room. The point out, however, is that not only do the majority of the European powers oppose decisive military measures against Saddam Hussein’s belligerent tyranny, they refuse to indict him either. Another fine exhibition of Europe’s collective socialist stagnation.
