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Apart from three years as Finance Minister, you've been a banker. How will you make up for your lack of political experience? In Djindjic's government, I learned fast. We inherited Serbia from Slobodan Milosevic as a destitute, ruined, isolated country. We sent Milosevic to the Hague, negotiated through dozens of strikes, clamped down on corruption and smuggling, and then upheld economic stability when gangsters killed Djindjic. I am battle hardened...
After reading the "Farewell" section [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007], I would like to suggest that next time around you include the loss of infamous notables, like Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic and al-Qaeda's Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, in a separate section titled "Good Riddance...
...Critics of the U.N.-driven approach say that had Saddam, like Slobodan Milosevic, been prosecuted by international lawyers in a third country, his trial would have been too remote to have provided Iraqis any sense of closure. But does anyone feel closure now? Rather than a moment of national reckoning, the execution of Saddam will be remembered by many as a brutal act of sectarian vengeance. Of course, the death penalty is prohibited in U.N. tribunals - a point often raised by defenders of the Iraqi courts. They argue that war criminals should face the toughest penalties allowed by their respective...
...feign outrage that Saddam's trial didn't live up to Jeffersonian standards. Of course the trial was imperfect--but compared to what? The summary judgments accorded by their countrymen to Mussolini in 1945 and Ceausescu in 1989? The four-year-long, never completed farce of a trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague before an International Criminal Tribunal under the auspices of the U.N., manned by the crème de la crème of international jurists...
...authority even more. The real fear of many Shi'ites and Kurds - that if allowed to live and remain in Iraq, Saddam would someday escape and return to power - could be allayed by putting Saddam in international custody and consigning him to life imprisonment in the Hague. Like Slobodan Milosevic before him, he would be left to die there a defeated, forgotten...