March 11, 2005

"Drive Him Fast to His Tomb"

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The Gorgon had surveyed the building again in the night, and had added the one stone face wanting; the stone face for which it had waited through about two hundred years. It lay back on the pillow of Monsieur the Marquis. It was like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified. Driven home into the heart of the stone figure attached to it, was a knife. Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:

"Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques."

--A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens


Slobodan Milosevic Dies in Prison Cell

Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, the so-called "butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup, was found dead Saturday in his prison cell. He was 64.

Posted by Vanderleun at March 11, 2005 11:04 AM
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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