In Their ICC Dreams
By A.M. Siriano (02/03/05)
Liberals continue to hang onto the fantasy that the UN can solve all the problems of the world—if only that demon-spawn G.W. Bush would stop being so stubborn!
Never mind the evidence of history, which reveals that something far less than universal goodness can be expected from such a “world body.” The UN is a failed experiment, but the “progressives,” refusing to look back even to history, believe in the UN and, consequently, in the International Criminal Court (ICC), with religious fanaticism. One dare not ignore the opinion of the whole world! is their mantra. Listen to what she has to say, and all of her problems will be solved.
Exploiting those problems to further their utopian agenda is never inappropriate to liberals. After having been silenced by President Bush’s election-poll victory in Iraq on January 30, they have found a new opportunity to attack their arch-nemesis in the White House: the UN’s recent recommendation to let the ICC deal with the Sudanese government and its bands of Islamist rebels, an idea that Bush adamantly opposes. This, liberals assure us, is a clear sign of Bush’s heartlessness. By using the ICC as a vehicle of authority, he could stop the atrocities in Darfur (this from the same people who thought he did too much to stop them in Iraq). Surely our “leader” cares more about ideology than people!
But G.W. is no easy target. In a recent "New York Times" op-ed, Nicholas Kristof, before pointing his leftist missiles at the President, was forced to applaud him, “for doing more than most other world leaders to address ethnic cleansing” in Darfur … But, enough sweet-talk:
"Mr. Bush’s sympathy for Sudanese parents who are having their children tossed into bonfires shrivels next to his hostility to the organization that the U.N. wants to trust with the prosecution: the International Criminal Court."
If Bush is even half the dunce the liberals think he is, he is still smarter than they, because a simple historical review of the ineffectiveness and inaction of the UN should convince the most mindless dolt that it cannot be trusted to save anyone. The UN demands respect and authority based on a most disgraceful résumé, which lists as recent accomplishments the Oil-for-Food scandal, its inability to condemn the Sudanese government in November 2004, and now its refusal to label the atrocities in Darfur “genocide.” Yet, Bush should heed its recommendation to allow the ICC to deal with the Sudan!
Libs like Kristof believe the ICC offers hope to the victims of the Islamists. If only there were a tribunal, goes the dream, to put fear into the hearts of the militant rebels who like to kill for sport—yes, then lives would be saved! Human rights activist Jim Lobe of OneWorld salivated when the UN finally concluded that something was indeed amiss in the Sudan:
"A long-awaited report by a special UN commission released Monday has concluded that “serious violations” of international humanitarian law have taken place in Darfur and that they should be referred by the UN Security Council to the ICC for investigation and prosecution."
Forget the impotency of the phrase “serious violations”—the two revealing words in that paragraph are “long-awaited” and “report,” which are synonymous with “all talk and no action.” Tell those whiners in Darfur—the men awaiting the blows of machetes, the women awaiting their next rape sessions, the orphans awaiting death by starvation and mutilation: Have no fear, the UN—within the year, maybe two—is near!
Diplomatic channels are always a prior and parallel path to follow in situations like this, and the Bush administration has been taking them—as liberals are forced to admit—but now it is time for military action. Talk, as they say, is cheap, but lives are even cheaper to the Islamist animals in the Sudanese government who are loath to heed reports and resolutions.
Bush rightly gives the UN and its illegitimate offspring, the ICC, no more regard than is absolutely necessary within a desolate political landscape. In the meantime, let’s hope he is setting his gun-sights on the Sudan.
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