You Must Be Kidding

Judges at the International Criminal Court have decided to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, brushing aside diplomatic requests to allow more time for peace negotiations in the conflict-riddled Darfur region of his country, according to court lawyers and diplomats. ( Judges Approve Warrant for Sudan’s President.)

If I’m not mistaken this is the first time in history that an international institution has taken a concrete step against a head of state in power, I mean targeting the person per se and not the country or the regime.

Of course the repercussions are incredibly complex (who’s behind the institution that sanctions heads of states, how to enforce warrants, etc.) but still at least in extreme cases such as that of Hassan al-Bashir it seems justified.

I wonder how many on the planet wish such a gesture had been taken early in the Bush administration.

Talking about Bush, I don’t know if like me you’ve been struck by the incredible amount of sharp criticism against Bush and his administration that came to light in the US the last few weeks before Obama’s election.

Why were all these people silent during Bush? Where were they? Are we now all so afraid that nobody speaks up when really something is going wrong?

As said an international police would be something incredibly complex to organize and implement, but looking back at the past 8 years, it seems urgent to come up with something that will give us a chance of acting against such threats as Bush and others.

Democratic elections are all well and nice, but not foolproof as Bush has shown. The American people were probably too close to their own problems to see the disaster that was happening under their own noses.

An international institution would have been better equipped to see that problem and take some form of action.

But wait a minute, am I not talking about the United Nations?

But of course the problem runs deeper. The problem is who has the real and greatest power. Because during the Bush years, criticism was not heard in the US, but, apart from a few outbursts from France and Iran, other nations didn’t say much either.

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