Posted by
Icarus on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:39:37 PM
Harold Koh will fit right in at a State Department led by Hillary Clinton (HT:
Jihad Watch). Clinton declared the phrase "Global War on Terror" as inoperative and no longer applicable. Koh believes that America is equivalent to North Korea and Iraq when it comes to violating international law, and he thinks Sha'ria could govern cases in American courts.
Just one Republican voting in favor of Koh's nomination could make this radical leftist a top lawyer at the State Department and put him on the fast-track for the Supreme Court, for which many liberals have short-listed Koh. Here are some things that should absolutly disqualify this guy from this job:
Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror "obsessive." In
2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law
-- "most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the
United States of America," which he branded "the axis of disobedience."
He has also accused President George Bush of abusing international
law to justify the invasion of Iraq, comparing his "advocacy of
unfettered presidential power" to President Richard Nixon's. And that
was the first Bush -- Koh was attacking the 1991 operation to liberate Kuwait, four days after fighting began in Operation Desert Storm.
Koh has also praised the Nicaraguan Sandinistas' use in the 1980s
of the International Court of Justice to get Congress to stop funding
the Contras. Imagine such international lawyering by rogue nations like
Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela today, and you can see the
danger in Koh's theories.
Koh, a self-described "activist," would plainly promote his views
aggressively once at State. He's not likely to feel limited by the
letter of the law -- in 1994, he told The New Republic: "I'd rather
have [former Supreme Court Justice Harry] Blackmun, who uses the wrong
reasoning in Roe [v. Wade] to get the right results, and let other
people figure out the right reasoning."
At what point will these radical Left-wing views stick to Pres. Obama? Would I be out of line writing that, since Obama appointed this guy, the President thinks America, Iraq and North Korea violate international law equally? Does Pres. Obama envision cases in American courts where Sha'ria would rule rather than American jurisprudence? Aren't these questions the so-called Fourth Estate should be asking?
One more thing: As
Dean of the Yale Law School this radical, anti-American, Left-wing activist is in charge of training future lawyers and judges. Be afraid. Be very afraid.