I have a feeling that future generations will look back and wonder why we didn’t arrest him when we had the chance:
“We are ready for a debate with the Americans at UN General Assembly.” According to the Presidential Office Media Department, Ahmadinejad made the comments at Wednesday session of his cabinet, further reiterating, “The American side can even take part in the debate side by side with his advisors, and as a full team, if they wish so.” Referring to his upcoming US visit to take part at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, The IRI President considered that occasion as a good opportunity for holding a debate, with his US counterpart, so that “the entire world nations, particularly the Americans would, directly and without any censorship watch it.”
He stressed, “The reputable news media of the world — those of them that respect truthfulness and abide by the rule of objectivity in heir profession — can take advantage of that opportunity to provide chance for world nations to hear the viewpoints and to choose the best.”
The goal – An Islamic world:
“It is possible to prove in a debate which of the two political systems is a better choice for the world nations: the one that is established based on the norms of liberalism and has caused so much dilemmas and plight for the mankind, or the one that is established based on monotheism and justice?”
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My dear fellow. I am afraid you are a bit confused. You cannot arrest a president of a nation because you don’t agree with his ideas. To be frankly honest I don’t like it either (women rights?, Civil rights? Segregation between church and state?) but like it or not an state is sovereign and unless the UN ( according to the law the only one higher in the hierarchy than a state) detects serious cases of violations of human rights or genocide arresting a president for his political choices is not possible.
Think about it for a minute. Who decides if somebody’s ideas are punishable? There is a very thin line between keeping people safe and authoritarianism.
Normally I’d agree with you. I’m not suggesting that it will happen. Just that someday, with hindsight, it may be viewed differently.
We can look back now and say that any action against Hitler or pre-war Germany would have been preferable to the track we followed. And while Ahmadinejad is not Hitler they share similar ambitions.