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To: Solon who wrote (41751)	11/23/2005 2:38:24 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. hrweb.org It's been a crime, according to the UN, since 1948. You think they haven't had time to draft additional legislation for enforcement, including military action? Or maybe the dictatorships controlling the UN won't allow it?

To: Solon who wrote (41751)	11/23/2005 2:46:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I've suggested that you then start a more amenable alliance dealing more pointedly with the terrorist threat, with WMD, and with internal genocide. And I answered such an organization already existed and had proven its ujselessness. Repeatedly. And when I spoke of economic sanctions it was to offer the perspective that these can serve as a front for a hidden agenda of military intervention. The world would accept an alliance to deal with crimes against humanity through economic sanctions, whereas the world would not accept an alliance aiming at military intervention. However, once foot is in door--in years to come the world could come to appreciate a broader and more incisive policy of dealing with genocide, terrorism, and WMD... So the ends justify the means? Hidden? Why hidden? Why not "CUT IT OUT OR FACE INTERNATIONAL INVASION, REGIME CHANGE, AND TRIAL!" e world would accept an alliance to deal with crimes against humanity through economic sanctions They haven't yet. They've had a mere 60 years. Castro is known to execute his political opponents at will. "They're not our sanctions!" is your excuse for helping him.