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2005-03-07 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-07 12:19:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The Americans have certainly made it clear that cooperation with the tribunal is very important to them"

After all America has *always* supported international criminal courts, hasn't it?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-07 11:10:29 AM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-07 11:10:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Aris, America has no dog in this fight. We don't recognize the authority of the ICC and aren't particularly fond of most of the commanders of ethnic forces in the Balkans.

That said, the ICC is a terribly flawed idea and should be left to wither away. The concept of crimes against humanity is just something that winners use to justify executing losers. That an international body can arbitrarily bring charges without any enforcement capability is an exercise in rhetoric and futility. I don't see the ICC bringing any actions against the UN peacekeepers who aided and abetted the slaughter in Rwanda. Nor for that matter, do I see any actions forthcoming against the heroic Belgians who abandoned the Tutsis to their fate and beat feet back to Belgium when danger threatened.

Posted by RWV 2005-03-07 3:43:42 PM|| 2005-03-07 3:43:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What Aris and his ink don't recognize is the willingness of our governement and military to investigate incidents and charges of wrong doing by our own people. I doubt there is a comparative record of any other government doing as much to insure justice occurs effectively inhouse. We are already seeing reliefs [firings] and convictions of American personnel for actions which occurred less than two years ago. Where's the progress on crimes in the Balkans? Still mired in politics and pseudo-due process. We act, you talk.

Posted by Cleamp Ebbereling9442 2005-03-07 3:49:44 PM|| 2005-03-07 3:49:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Currently, USA is urging that EU membership be used as a means to pressure Croatia to cooperate with an international courts tribunal.

If people who loathe both the EU and international courts tribunals (claiming them both useless or worse-than-useless) don't see the irony in that, I have nothing to say.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-07 3:59:38 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-07 3:59:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This could just be Al-Guardian trying to draw a US connection in case anything goes wrong.

Posted by Charles 2005-03-07 4:30:44 PM|| 2005-03-07 4:30:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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