Dubya May Be "Scary" But HRW's Roth and AI's Neve Are Even Scarier

I was going to respond to this--a letter in the National Post by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, demanding that Canada arrest George W. Bush for his war crimes ("because if he gets away with flouting so fundamental a norm as the prohibition of torture, rulers around the world will feel emboldened to think that they, too, can get away with ordering this horrible crime"). But looking at George Jonas's column on the opposite page, I find there's no need to. Jonas writes:

I abhor torture, but trust neither the motives nor the judgment of people who would make George W. Bush the first political leader in history to be prosecuted for it. Self-anointed do-gooders with delusions of moral superiority scare me no less than jackbooted thugs, and so do supranational institutions with unelected activists sitting in judgment on sovereign nations and their democratically mandated leaders.