Monday, November 06, 2006

Saddam Hussein,War Crimes & Dictators

Saddam will hang for his crimes against a village. This is the crime of a dictator. Nobody will mourn him or should miss him. What lingers in my mind is the fate of all the other dictators who have escaped justice. Pinochet's fate is uncertain. Idi Amin never got what he deserved. Stalin died a natural death. Many of the war criminals of Bosnia remain at large. Then there's the war criminals who escaped justice by faking their own deaths, the Nazi butchers of humanity. And the other Nazis who were recruited by the USA for their expertise in chemicals, torture, weapons.
There is no cause for celebration of the end of one dictator, one war criminal, one butcher of humanity when so many have escaped justice.
Justice is such a weak weapon, justice is so lame in the face of so much evil in the world.
Maybe those who lost family and friends to Saddam's regime will take cold comfort in his execution. I doubt if the world will be a better place, or that we should feel more secure in knowing that one criminal out of hundreds of thousands has met his just deserts.

1 comment:

none said...

As a civilized society we wouldn't dare place him in one of his acid drip chambers, have him sodomized to death, or slowly fed into a wood chipper feet first like he did to so many dissenters and opponents.

We can just take comfort that for the most part that we are better than him.

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