Monday, May 24, 2004

A nice quote from Jurgen Habermas

"Not long ago, a generation of young Germans who were liberated from the Nazi regime by American soldiers developed admiration for the political ideas of a nation that soon became the driving force in founding of United Nations and carrying out the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. As a consequence, classical international law was revolutionized by limiting the sovereignty of nation-states, by abolishing the immunity of state authorities from supranational prosecution and by incorporating unprecedented crimes into the penal code of international jurisdiction. Should this same nation now brush aside the civilizing achievement of legally domesticating the state of nature among belligerent nations?" -- "Letter to America." The Nation (December 16, 2002).

posted by Daniel @ Monday, May 24, 2004