No Sympathy for Slobbered-on My Scrotum-itch

I find it somewhat humorous and yet completely pathetic that these tyrants such as Slobo and Saddam generate such sympathy as to how they should be treated while in custody awaiting trial for unspeakable crimes against humanity.

They say (the intellectual and liberals do that is) a society can be judged on how it treats its criminals? God forbid we should take into account how they treated their victims.

No Sympathy for Slobo - Let's not forget Milosevic's many crimes. By Christopher Hitchens: "During the siege of Sarajevo or the mass deportations from Kosovo, the news of a sudden stoppage of the heart of Slobodan Milosevic would have occasioned a joyous holiday in many other hearts. And the idea that he might one day die in prison would have been excellent tidings for a future generation and was the intended effect of his long and convoluted trial. But the news that he has succumbed randomly is bad news, as was the illness that overtook one of his original judges and helped protract the process in the first place. One can see, forming in the swamps of nationalism and superstition, a myth of martyrdom dimly taking shape.

This would be the worst outcome, since Milosevic began and ended, as all such dictators do, by ruining his own people and degrading his own country. It was on April 24, 1987, that, as an ambitious Stalinoid bureaucrat, he journeyed to Kosovo and made a toxically demagogic appeal to the Serbian minority. It was on June 28, 1989—the 600th anniversary of the Serbian defeat in Kosovo by the Turks—that he returned to the territory and made a hysterical speech to a mass rally. During his ignoble presidency, Serbia became a banana republic, and his predecessor, Ivan Stambolic, was later 'disappeared' and found in a shallow grave. Serbian death squads were used against" read more

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