Spare us the in-your-sleep moralizing By Victor Davis Hanson
The Bear on Oct 31 2005 at 1:05 am | Filed under: Need to Know
To paraphrase the ancient Greeks, it is easy to be moral in your sleep. Abstract ethics or soapbox lectures demanding superhuman perfection mean little without deeds.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other global humanitarian groups recently expressed criticism over the slated trial of the mass murderer Saddam Hussein. Such self-appointed auditors of moral excellence were worried that his legal representation was inadequate. Or perhaps they felt the court of the new Iraqi democracy was not quite up to the standards of wigged European judges in The Hague.
Relay those concerns to the nearly 1 million silent souls butchered by Saddam’s dictatorship. Once they waited in vain for any such international human-rights organization to stop the murdering. None could or did.
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