Chain him up

Charles Krauthammer is livid about the Saddam Hussein trial because the Iraqis are giving him far too much deference. From “Man for a Glass Booth”:

This is absurd. If anything, Hussein should be brought in wearing prison garb, perhaps in shackles, just for effect. And why was he given control of the script? He shouts, interrupts and does his Mussolini histrionics unmolested. Instead of the press being behind a glass wall, it is Hussein who should be. Better still, placed in a glass booth, like Eichmann, like some isolated specimen of deranged humanity, symbolically and physically cut off from the world of normal human values.

In other words, the former dictator must be reminded that he’s no longer in charge.