The "international arrest warrant", or the "arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, for anything because I say so" warrant, is on the march. This time being issued for the arrest of three U.S. soldiers, a tank crew, for having fired on the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad in April of 2003 and killing two persons, one of whom was Spanish. As we saw last time, the involvement of a Spaniard in the incident is only incidental, for Spain's highest court recently assumed jurisdiction over crimes in other countries even if there were no Spanish citizens involved — as victims, that is.  For those of you unfamiliar with the beast, the "international arrest warrant" is a product of Euro groupthink. James Bennett, in a short piece posted at one time — January, 2002 —  at the American Enterprise online site, described this wily jurisprudential critter as follows: The events of Sept. 11 were shamefully used as an excuse to implement a measure European bureaucrats had been seeking...(Read Full Post)