A “Swift Trip To The Hague”

Madeleine Albright and Marwan Muasher (both former foreign ministers of the US and Jordan respectively), argue in the Financial Times that the Syrian president could be scared by the initiation of a process of international justice against him:

Initiating an ICC investigation in Syria now would create a powerful incentive for Mr Assad to choose reform over further repression.

This argument has been made before , and I’ll argue as I did back then that such a threat makes President Assad more repressive, not less..