Eminent Domain Stuff
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Saddam's So-Called Trial
John Derbyshire has written what I consider to be the most clear-thinking piece on Saddam's impending trial for NRO (and it's scary how much he agrees with me).
Here's a teaser:
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Here's a teaser:
I believe Saddam's appearance illustrated another thing as well: the folly of the legalistic approach to war criminals, and our continuing inability to take seriously the threats facing us.Go see what his three possibilities are. He is exactly right...and I also wish Saddam had met the fate John suggests. Alas, it's not to be so.
Consider the legal issue. Here was Saddam Hussein in court before a judge. Most of my friends and colleagues are thrilled about this. "We have brought the tyrant to justice!" they crow. "Now the people of Iraq can deal with him in a proper, civilized way!"
Well, I am all for justice, and equally for civilization, but I can't convince myself that either is being served by this embarrassing spectacle. In what sense is Saddam supposed to be guilty of crimes? You are guilty of a crime if you have broken a law. What law or laws did Saddam break? There are, in logic, only three possibilities.
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