Category: World

What Goes Around Comes Around

The international courts in the Hague have lately been surrounded by a suspiciously anti-American aura, what with people constantly trying to prosecute Americans from the President on down to individual US soldiers, on the most specious of pretexts.

Now we’ll see what happens when people in actual free nations (including Canada, yay!) bring charges against a leader who gleefully and openly threatens real crimes against humanity, like, say, genocide with weapons of mass destruction:

[Outgoing US ambassador to the UN] Bolton will be joined in tomorrow’s launch of the legal action against Mr Ahmadinejad by a Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, and the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold, together with experts from the US, Canada and Israel. A suit will be lodged with the international court of justice at The Hague, which will decide whether to hear the action. The panel said the Iranian president was guilty of inciting genocide “by making numerous threats against the United States, calling for the destruction of Israel and instigating discrimination against Christians and Jews”. His words violate a 1948 UN genocide convention, to which Iran is a signatory, they said.

The “progressives” in the Hague have long been talking the talk. Now can they walk the walk?

The Terrible Scourge of Globalization

In yet another instance of things you know that ain’t so, it turns out that the world’s poor are getting rich faster than the rich. Basically, the economies of developing countries are growing over twice as fast as those of developing countries.

The net result is that the income of developing countries “will continue to converge with those of wealthy countries. This would imply that countries as diverse as China, Mexico and Turkey would have average living standards roughly comparable to Spain today.”

Stupid developing countries! Why can’t they stay down in their gutters so celebrities can adopt their babies and protesters can trash Starbucks franchises in their name?

I blame George W. Bush.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)

Palestine: Facts not Slander

Alan Dershowitz reviews Jimmy Carter’s latest book, and doesn’t think much of it:

Mr. Carter’s book is so filled with simple mistakes of fact and deliberate omissions that were it a brief filed in a court of law, it would be struck and its author sanctioned for misleading the court.

Moderate Islam

There’s an article in the Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Tulsa World paper by a Muslim gentleman denouncing violence by Muslims.

He was kicked out of his local mosque, and threatened with, ironically enough, violence to his person.

Why should we continue to protest the stereotype of the violent Muslim when Muslims seem bent on perpetuating it themselves?