Thursday, July 30, 2009

U.S. Backs Implementing U.N. Doctrine Against Genocide


From the Wall Street Journal:

UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration is supporting moves to implement a U.N. doctrine calling for collective military action to halt genocide.

The next step is to see if the countries in favor of implementing the policy will act when a new genocide is brewing if all other diplomatic actions fail. The doctrine is political, not legal: Although these countries have expressed the political will to act, they aren't legally bound to.

The U.N. just concluded a week long debate on implementing the doctrine, which was endorsed by U.N. members in 2005.

Read more ....

My Comment: Another well meaning U.N. resolution .... but with no teeth nor clear lines of who will enforce such a mandate. I will take such doctrines seriously when killers like the President of Sudan is arrested in any African nation and brought to the International Court at the Hague ..... that is when I know that there is meaning in this resolution.

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