FIND HIM ON THE POST OFFICE WALL – AT 9:05 A.M. ET:  The exalted leader of Libya is in more legal trouble this morning.  Calling Perry Mason.  From Fox:

DEVELOPING: The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Monday for Muammar Qaddafi, his son Seif, and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the Libyan leader's four-month battle to cling to power.

Gee, didn't these legal wizards notice anything about the Qaddafi bunch before this war began?

Judges announced that the three men are wanted for orchestrating the killing, injuring, arrest and imprisonment of hundreds of civilians during the first 12 days of an uprising to topple Qaddafi from power, and for trying to cover up the alleged crimes.

The warrants turn Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam Qaddafi and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi into internationally wanted suspects, potentially complicating efforts to mediate an end to more than four months of intense fighting in the North African nation.

But...

Libyan officials rejected the court's authority even before the decision was read in a Hague courtroom, claiming the court had unfairly targeted Africans while ignoring what they called crimes committed by NATO in Afghanistan, Iraq "and in Libya now."

"The ICC has no legitimacy whatsoever. We will deal with it. ... All of its activities are directed at African leaders," government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters Sunday.

COMMENT:  The bottom line here is this:  The ICC doesn't really have any power.  Qaddafi will go only if he's dislodged by NATO, and NATO thus far hasn't been able to do the job, absent American leadership.  Obama has botched the entire issue by refusing to get Congressional approval for his early military action in Libya, and by refusing to lead, or even explain this action to the American people in a formal, Oval Office speech.  So right now we're nowhere, which is where the age of Obama has taken us.

June 27, 2011