Steven DenBeste weighs in

on Iraq with yet another well thought out essay. He is as good as The Belmont Club and is another of those sites I visit every day. bq. I've seen many commentators writing about leftist demands for an internationalized trial for Saddam who have expressed exasperation at what they perceive as smugness or obtuseness. In fact, what I think we're seeing is fear, panic and desperation. bq. I think those commentators have made the mistake of taking the leftists at their word. For example, Tacitus comments acidly on leftist claims that Saddam's trial would lack "legitimacy" unless it was handled by some sort of international tribunal. But that's only what they say. What they're thinking is that if this is not handled by an international tribunal, then the concepts of "international justice" and "international law" will themselves lose legitimacy. bq. For a long time now, transnationalists have been working to establish a world government. Their goal is nothing less than world conquest, but since they do not intend violent conquest, their means has been persuasion. What they hope is to create embryonic manifestations of world government and then to try to talk about them as if they were already established. If they can convince enough people (and the right people) that there even is such a thing as "international law", then it becomes true. bq. So they push that idea by hiding it. When discussing a nation which refuses to go along with them, they talk about that nation as a scofflaw rather than openly acknowledging the philosophical disagreement about whether there even is such a thing as "international law". bq. But the events of the last two years have not been kind to the transnationalists. There have been events which they think should properly be dealt with on the international level, but it's all gone wrong. Sit down, get a pot of tea and read the whole thing - it's gooood!!!