Duterte's prosecution will be celebrated in Western capitals not because it represents justice, but because it provides a veneer of legitimacy to a broken institution.
Well put Prof. Bettache. Thanks for the article. My wife is from the Philippines and we’re glad to see due process with respect to Duterte. I don’t like the bastard. Still, the one white guy they got doesn’t count in my view: Milosevic. It was the ICTY but the point is the same. Yugoslavia is not a country I know well. I just know that they were free from the west, communist, and that they didn’t attack the USA before the USA bombed them. I mean they weren’t even anti-West, necessarily? They were just neutral. I don’t know but Yugoslavia and Syria look really similar right now.
Well put Prof. Bettache. Thanks for the article. My wife is from the Philippines and we’re glad to see due process with respect to Duterte. I don’t like the bastard. Still, the one white guy they got doesn’t count in my view: Milosevic. It was the ICTY but the point is the same. Yugoslavia is not a country I know well. I just know that they were free from the west, communist, and that they didn’t attack the USA before the USA bombed them. I mean they weren’t even anti-West, necessarily? They were just neutral. I don’t know but Yugoslavia and Syria look really similar right now.