Andy Absolutely. I took that "political profile" test last week (week before?) and it put me right where I expected, way out in the SW quadrant - left-leaning social justice loving radical. Similar tests for "moral profile" have me as a "secular humanist". What it basically comes down to is that my spectrum of beliefs on a wealth of issues places me smack-bang in the middle of the protest-attending, letter-writing left. While the Balkans was much less of an issue here, with almost no involvement by Australian forces, among our fairly large "Yugoslav" (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, etc.) community, it was certainly an issue. I made it my business to understand the problems there, and I am now glad, and believe it's right that Milosevic and the others of his government are being tried in the Hague. This is also what should happen subsequent to the current Iraq conflict. Hussein and the appropriate members of his regime should be tried by the ICC (as the internationally agreed to court of jurisdiction). Of course, I also believe that individuals among the US, UK and Australian governments have also broken international law (as agreed to in the UN), and should face the appropriate jurisdiction. It fascinates me that, as previously mentioned somewhere in this discussion, the US as a key founder of the UN now sees itself as either above or outside the UN. It may well be that the UN is overly bureaucratic, slow, too careful, whatever. It may be that UN weapons inspectors are incompetent and couldn't find their backsides with both hands. But the fact remains that the UN, right or wrong, is the only international body to which all these nations are a member, and to which they have all ceded authority on certain decisions. Going off and taking unilateral action without UN backing then becomes either an act of defiance of the UN, or simply illegal. Or both. The weight of international legal opinion, and IANAL so I am in no position to judge, seems to be that the current action is illegal. Thus my current stance.
Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
