Travails of a 'young war criminal' | The Japan Times Online
In this article, a very important point is made about how leaders of powerful countries (Bush and Blair in this case) will never be prosecuted for violating international laws in attacking an independent country such as Iraq for no reason (no WMDs) other than the fact that they didn't like the leader. Is Kim next? Chavez? China?
Who will be held accountable for causing deaths of over 100,000 in Iraq in attacks based on false premises?
Although I support the idea of removing evil dictators and replacing them with democratic governments, we can't just invade and kill.
As we begin to study to Visions of the Future unit this term, this forces us to rethink how international laws and agreements should be redesigned so that they are enforced fairly regardless of who breaks them. When should international arms intervention into human rights violations be justified and what should be the procedure for such decisions? Can one group of countries (the "good" guys) move in and take out the bad guys? Is that what we want?
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