“War crimes” trials are an extra fillip imposed on the loser by the winner to rub the losers noses in their loserness and to proclaim the winners’ own moral superiority. Very little is less moral than the strategic bombing campaign in WW II, but I don’t remember any British or American generals or politicians being tried for it.
“War crimes” trials are an extra fillip imposed on the loser by the winner to rub the losers noses in their loserness and to proclaim the winners’ own moral superiority. Very little is less moral than the strategic bombing campaign in WW II, but I don’t remember any British or American generals or politicians being tried for it.
Do you think recent trials and warrants against ex-Yugoslav, Cambodian, Rwandan and Sudanese leaders have any preventive effect?
Do you think these trials are void of moral content?