I like clear simple sentences.
I don't see how you find it difficult to decide that Janjaweed militia that have raped village girls and burned village homes for years and years and years should be destroyed. I don't think the destroyer (whatever outside country takes up the cause) needs to claim some moral superiority. Common sense says that the Janjaweed militia is bad for the majority of the country (unless the villagers are committing some even more atrocious crime, which is probably not the case).
I never mentioned Janjaweed millitia.
But, that is okay. I will try to addrss your concerns.
The world is complex. It is not easy to keep law and order in the world. We have not been doing rule of law for a very long time. Depending on how you define things, we've been at it for only a few hundred years. A few thousand years max. Cosmically, that is no time at all. Even on earth, that is not much time.
Making rules and laws take time and effort, but it has to be done. Frontier or vigilante justice will not suffice.
There is a lot of injustice in this world. A lot of people are getting away with stuff. But the rule of law is chugging along. There are ups and downs. Rule of law is more advanced in some countries than others.
Like anything else rule of law requires resources (eg, money, manpower, laptop computers, etc).
Like anything else, some of the money we spend on the rule of law is well spent - some of it is wasted.
Like anything else, it is best to allocate your resources. It is best to plan things.
Like anything else - everybody has a plan - everybody has a vision.
Like anything else. Some plans are good. Some are bad.
Like anything else, who decides what, when and where we allocate our resources is not all that clear cut.
There are a lot of people that need justice in this world. A lot of our own people need justice. Our dollars are better spent on justice in our own country first.
1. We have jurisdiction in our own country.
2. We understand our own problems better than some one elses.
We need to be concerned about justice elsewhere. We need to help. But, direct military action is probably not the best way to do it. We need to outsource that effort. We need to mobilise our private sector to help. We need to contribute to international organizations that are set up to help.
A lot has to be done. But we need to be as efficient and rational as possible. |
