"Drive Him Fast to His Tomb"

Sometimes you dance with the devil. When it comes to Islam, this guy may have been Patton.

Posted by jeffersonranch at March 11, 2006 1:28 PM

That his trial dragged on interminably is appalling. The idea of war crimes trials is inherently problematic as a result of the legal paradigm that insists on scrupulous fairness in a trial where we know the major players are guilty as sin.

It just makes me gag to hear newscasters refer to the "allegations" leveled against Saddam Hussein. Hussein -- and Milosevich -- should have been tried and executed in the same manner as Ceausescu, i.e., within about 24 hours.

Winston Churchill thought the Nazi leadership should have been stood against a wall and shot with great dispatch.

It was the Americans, with their love of the legal system, and the Soviets, who loved a good show trial, insisting on the Nuremberg Trials that blocked Churchill's more efficient administration of justice.

I'm not sure that the so-called benefits of a tyrant mocking and manipulating the legal system for years outweighs the harm to a nation trying to escape the hangover from war, defeat, or revolution.

Posted by Mike Lief at March 11, 2006 3:22 PM