From "The Trial of Saddam", an Opinionjournal.com op-ed by Alan Dershowitz:
Nuremberg taught us that even victor's justice can be relatively fair. There is a vast difference between imperfect justice, which is what Nuremberg was, and perfect injustice, which is what Stalin inflicted on those Nazi prisoners he simply had shot.
This a few days old but I thought it was worth a post. Dershowitz is simply hoping for a process that is fairly "transparent", and of course avoids even the appearance of "an American thumb on the scales".
Posted by dan at July 9, 2004 08:27 AM