The sheer brazenness with which countries
ironically recognized as being sovereign states by international law ignore
international law even in regard to human rights that seeks to place boundaries
on said sovereignty reflects the impotency of international law, and thus even
that which recognizes national sovereignty itself. For the rest of us,
continuing to believe that upcoming cases before the International Court of
Justice, the UN’s court, are of consequence and thus even worth paying attention
to, demonstrates abject stupidity, as if we were herd animals without learning
curves. Admittedly, the stubborn, self-aggrandizing governments are ethically
worse than the world’s population that lets such governments blatantly and even
explicitly ignore judicial rulings of the International Court of Justice (and
the European Court of Human Rights), but culpability can also be gleamed from
the public’s truly pathetic irrational belief that another case against a
country that has just ignored a verdict of that very court might just work in
curtailing human-rights abuses and outright, even genocide-scale, aggression
that outstrips even the sin of retaliation. Either I am blind or the proverbial
emperor is not wearing any clothes.
The full essay is at "On the Impotency of International Law."
