OK, misguided political query: does the UN's decade-long failure to deal with war crimes in Syria and the US-led military strike without UN approval mean that the UN is a spent force as far as war crimes are concerned?\r\n
If so, if going through the UN is futile, is there a better way to deal with a sovereign nation in a civil war committing war crimes? Is it OK for a few nations to take it on themselves to retaliate?\r\n
This is a serious query. I would like to believe in the UN and the ICC and the structures of the international community, but it's hard to argue that they have been effective. I am extremely skeptical about 'coalitions of the willing', but I don't have any better notion in mind. I loathe the idea that people have no business enforcing human rights in other nations, but I have no faith that there is an effective way to enforce those rights, either.\r\n
In short: is there a good way to minimize the chances that dictators will commit war crimes against their own citizens? Is there a way that, if not good, is better than living with atrocities?\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger would like something to believe in, if only for the comfort of a slogan.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19637,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions\/19637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}