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Originally Posted by August
I'd submit that it is already beyond a deterrent.
Nuclear weapons have been used only twice, within days of each other and haven't been used in over a half century since. How many ICC warrants have been issued in their short existence?
Now it is being used against a dictator who is still in power. They just gave him another reason to go down fighting instead of giving up.
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It is like a nuclear deterrence but it is obviously NOT a nuclear deterrence.
The ICC arrest warrant is a clear message to Gaddafi and his followers that their regime is DEAD politically and is intolerable to the international community. That is they are erasing any possibility of a come back or holding on to power without being an ineffective and isolated leader of Libya.
In short the ICC is giving Gaddafi one less reason and less hope to hold on to power.
Now there's only need of more ground pressure on Gaddafi controlled territory.