November 22, 2009
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David Rieff The New Republic (www.bookmag.com/magazines/title/the_new_republic.htm) 
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In reality, it is the court that is the counsel of despair. Its rationale derives from the hope that, somehow, the law can rescue us from situations in which politics and statecraft have failed. But the law can never do this, and this time will be no exception. With the best intentions in the world, we are establishing one more institution that, like the United Nations, is sure to be unable to meet the high hopes that attended its creation. This is bound to createóas the U.N. itself has doneónot hope, but disillusion.

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David Rieff is the author ofSlaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West(Simon and Schuster, 1995). From The New Republic (Sept. 7, 1998). Subscriptions: $59.94/yr. (48 issues) from Box 37298, Boone, IA 50037-0298.

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