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The treatment he deserves: this prisoner should not be left to Jacques, Kofi, et al
National Review, Dec 31, 2003 by John O'Sullivan
Being neither unworldly nor naive, European diplomats and U.N. international lawyers know this very well. It is a measure of their passions and resentments (their humiliation, one might also say) that they cannot hold off from making demands they know to be unachievable on several levels. What they resent, of course, is that such independent power should be exercised by a nation-state rather than being subject to the rules and procedures of international institutions and multilateral cooperation (administered, it is hardly necessary to add, by themselves). That the U.S. is the nation-state in question only makes matters worse since the U.S. is the leading representative of that "Anglo-Saxon" liberalism that has been the bane of continental orders rooted in centralized authority since the modern age began. And they therefore seek to constrain and limit the U.S. and its allies in the name of a future world order built in their image.
It is a consolation that in the U.S. itself the Democrats, the media, the cultural authorities, and the Left largely agree with them. In the light of the likely electoral consequences of Saddam's capture, however, that looks like very cold comfort indeed.
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