In yesterday's WashPost, actress and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie had this op-ed on the Darfur tragedy. She has some good lines:
Accountability is a powerful force. It has the potential to change behavior....When crimes against humanity are punished consistently and severely, the killers' calculus will change.
It has become clear to me that there will be no enduring peace without justice.
What the worst people in the world fear most is justice. That's what we should deliver.
Regrettably, Ms. Jolie fails to note that the Incapable Criminal Court whose jurisdiction she seeks to invoke cannot deliver justice. Its European creators have withheld the power to punish genocide with the requisite severity.
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