Monday, May 4, 2009

Ignatieff in unexpected places

I was reading the Zim Daily, an internet newspaper from Zimbabwe, when I stumbled across a quote from Michael Ignatieff:

"As Ignatieff writes 'justice itself is not a problematic objective, but whether the attainment of justice always contributes to reconciliation is anything but evident'. Indeed a retributive penal system has shown it has no deterrent effect on would be violators."

The article argued against a Truth Commission for Zimbabwe. It was quite well put -- and Ignatieff's quotation was perfect.
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