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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110690)8/9/2003 2:23:51 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
American courts set guilty people free every day, often knowing that many of the people being freed are guilty of crimes. They are freed because the prosecution of justice is based on a less-than-prefect process. They are freed because due process is a fundamental aspect of our legal system that is so important to our freedom and way of life that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to undermine the due process of law.

I doubt many here or elsewhere in America would want our courts and justice system to scrap due process. I doubt many in America would prefer to live in a world where the US government no longer had to respect their rights. I doubt many of us would want to live in a world where the only way to survive is to buy as many big guns as possible and a lot of ammunition because it is now every man for himself. The law is what keeps us from descending to the depths of depravity that we see in other countries from time-to-time. The law makes us free.

The same applies at the international level, where the evolution of law is more incomplete and poorly defined, but exists for a reason and needs to be strengthened, not destroyed as Bush is doing. We have seen all too often the depravity of war. War is too serious to leave up to the discretion of individual countries, just as taking another man's life is too serious a matter to leave up to an individual American citizen. The only basis for unilateral action is self-defense, and this is as true for the nation state as it is for every man and woman walking down the streets of your community.

Historians are most likely to look at Bush as a weak President who had very low immunity to bad ideas -- a President who convinced the other major powers that the US cannot be trusted to play such a central role in world affairs.
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