Stability or Justice. Which would you choose?

Team America.  World Police.

Stability or Justice.  Which would you choose?

This dilemma is played out all over the world.

Let's start in Liberia. The current president of Liberia - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - brings stability to her war ravaged country.  With a political nudge here and there it is conceivable that she too could be facing charges in the Hague along with her fellow Liberian Charles Taylor.

I think that stability is far more important at this stage.  Justice can wait.

Or how about northern Uganda?  Joseph Kony - the leader of the brutal LRA responsible for countless war crimes - refuses to sign a peace treaty with the Ugandan government until crimes against humanity charges against him are dropped.

What's more important here? Stability or peace?  If you ask the people on the ground in Uganda they'll also say peace, peace and more peace.  A twenty four year civil war is twenty four years too long.

Both of these situations raises interesting points about the International Criminal Court.  I think the ICC is fantastic.  No more can warlords get away with  genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.  There is a World Police.  It's not run by America and it goes by the name of the ICC.

I'm sure that there is that nagging doubt in the back of the mind for people like Kony, Taylor, Sirlief, and Bush(?) that they can't just steam-roll a group of people as the ICC is going to catch up with them eventually.

And yet in Northern Uganda especially, the ICC is actually inhibiting a peace treaty.

Interesting problems with no obvious solution.