Milosevic's success, using legal loopholes, postponement of trials, along with extradition of direct accomplices, served to place accountability of his war crimes, massive slaughter-genocide, in passive stance... The International court's verdict bec...

Sure, he died of natural causes. By the way, I have this Bridge fro sale!

The Int'l Court Court in the Hague, What a joke, like the UN, they have proven to be totally useless.

The trial was entering its fifth year! The purpose of a trial should be to establish innocence or guilt and to determine a consistent, fair punishment. If you can't make a decision after four years, you're just dithering.

In some circles, there will be a sigh of relief because punishment for Milosevic's crimes would have been laughably insufficient. There can be only one punishment for genocide (even genocide-lite) and no European was going to pull the required trigger.

I predict there will be calls by Hagueophiles to continue the trial despite the death of the defendant. They will claim that we need to establish the historical record and underscore the justice of the current political boundaries in the former Yugoslavia. What else are all these lawyers and political administrators supposed to do with their time?

Of course, the international legal community also wishes to establish a precedent under which they can prosecute their true enemy; the leaders of the United States.

On the upside, Saddam has been following Milosevic's defense model pretty closely. Perhaps he will choose to execute a similar endgame.

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Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was...