A Wall Street Journal editorial dismisses the indictment of Sudan's president for war crimes, noting that the indictment will accomplish little. The WSJ notes, rightly, that only regime change will make Sudan's thug-leader accountable.
Which brings us to a realization: International law is a set of unilateral constraints adopted by western countries, and ignored by the world's evil regimes. Unless someone puts a bullet between the eyes of thugs misruling their countries, nothing will happen, or regime change comes about peacefully (as in South Africa, where white leader F. W. DeKlerk's acceptance of change made Nelson Mandela's triumph possible), nothing will happen. But what of Nuremberg, you ask? Nuremberg's trials came after the Holocaust, punishing some Nazis who perpetrated it; stopping it was the work of allied troops.
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