A Civil Libertarian's Lament for a Lost Decade of Human Rights

Abstract

In 2012, Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu refused to share the stage withformer British Prime Minister Tony Blair and pulled out of a scheduled inter-national event in Johannesburg. Explaining his decision, he wrote that in order towage their immoral Iraq war, President George W. Bush and Blair �fabricated thegrounds to behave like playground bullies� and left a legacy of death and destruc-tion. He pointedly asked why African leaders should be arraigned before the Inter-national Criminal Court (ICC) while Blair joins the international speakers� circuit:in a consistent world, those responsible for this suffering and loss of life [inIraq] should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asianpeers who have been made to answer for their actions in the Hague.