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

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.