Reply #6: Sovereignty just "is"--it's "custom and tradition." It's something not to be ceded. [View All]

I'm not commenting on the 'rightness' of it, moral or otherwise. Ultimately, the "sovereignty" of the US lies in its people, and "We, The People" aren't wired for that kind of stuff where we let others come in and tell us how to do our thing. The US is not, "We Are The World" current mindset notwithstanding, in any mood to yield any of the authority that we wrested from a king a few hundred years ago to a crowd of foreign judges. It's just not happening. There'd be hell to pay and it would cost Obama his Presidency, the Democrats the Congress, and give the GOP a hook to climb back into the game.

Obama is most assuredly not a stupid man--he's incredibly astute, and he's sharp enough to take advice. The advice I'm quite sure he's getting is "Some Spanish judge doesn't tell US citizens what to do, even US citizens who are assholes. Give those clowns the stiff arm."

If the "International Community" couldn't get Pinochet (and they tried like hell), who died in his very own bed despite a great deal of hoopla, they're unlikely to be frogmarching Bush or Cheney any time soon, unless Porgie and Unka Dick decide to take up residence in Madrid and do a little busking on the Plaza Mayor, leaving them vulnerable to arrest.

That would be a funny thing to see, but it's a pipe dream.