>If anything, there's too much
>utopian imagining about how the U.S. could 'help' people in other countries and
>not enough discussion of how to put in place a government here that won't level
>said countries, and I don't mean elect Democrats.
Ideally, the United nations might be in a position to occupy the US and try the war criminals currently in power. However that is pie-in-the-sky for now. In the meantime we should call for UN military and economic sanctions to be imposed against those countries which illegally invaded Iraq, the US, Britain and Australia. I think this is a necessary pre-condition for a United Nations mission to Iraq, to clean up the mess. Financed by the criminal nations which caused the problem in the first place.
But some war crimes trials would be helpful, to establish the principle of the rule of law. Bush & co. might be able to hide behind the power of US power, but that shouldn't prevent them being tried in absentia. Let them hide, like Saddam Hussein. Who cares? The important thing is that they be taught the difference between might and right. Meanwhile, the Australian and British war criminals could not be quite so confident of escaping justice.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas