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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (41202)	11/17/2005 7:52:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

This is what I am getting at. If civilized countries respond to such acts of inhumanity AT THE TIME as a matter of allied policy THEN I think there is much to recommend it. The French. The Russians. You had people sitting on the Security Council who had been bought AND WERE NOT GOING TO APPROVE ACTION AT ANY TIME REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION! The French specifically said so. "Don't bother me with the facrs; my mind's made up!" With a corrupt organization like the UN containing corrupt nations in a position to block action, you can have large scale genocide ignored- -if they get a cut. I'm not saying this was necessarily wrong; but I would rather see such violations of sovereignty linked to internal atrocities--with the civilized world united to oppose as a matter of open public policy. See above. Yu buy the right nations, you have nothing to worry about- -unless a few nations decide to ignore the collective. Just as the Geneva Convention gave a moral and legal framework for prosecution across international boundaries--so would a similar Convention establish moral and legal grounds for violating sovereignty at a National Level. Hmmm. The way this works is the winner gets to hold war crimes trials. I have trouble seeing the Germans putting Foch or Haig or Bradley or Patton in the dock. We have simply not formalized such a policy yet. There will come a time when protecting innocent people from genocidal butchers is a matter of course... You have far more faith in humanity than I do.