0marTheZealot
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Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: 0marTheZealot
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: 0marTheZealot
War crimes are a joke.
That's exactly the kind of thinking that gave us your mercifully EX-Traitor In Chief and his criminal cabal of traitors, murderers, torturers and war criminals, all of whom should be tried for their crime both in the U.S. and at the World Court at the Hague.
Israel and those they have fought all deserve justice based on the truth, no more and no less. If Israel believes they committed no crimes, let them have the balls to prove it. If not, they're the same kind of sick hypocritical pieces of shit as the Bushwhackos.
I know how much you love that macro Harvey, but in the real world, countries with power simply do not submit to war crime tribunals. The US should be indicted many times over for what it's done throughout history. The same with the Soviet Union. Why do people like Slobadon get tried for war crimes? Simple, his country was neither powerful enough nor had powerful enough friends to avoid persecution.
You think Nazi Germany would have had a Nuremburg trial if they won? They might have, but American/British/French/Soviet officers would have been on trial for ex-post-facto laws they broke.
The winners pass judgement on the losers. It's as simple as that. Why do you think the Iraqi Courts can't touch American soldiers/contractors? We wrote into their law system that Americans (and other allied countries) are immune to persecution.
And you don't see a problem with that? Knowing what has happened in the past does not make us captive to it. We live in an age of much more rapid and in depth communication with much more information available in real time. There is no excuse for allowing war crimes to be overlooked or the guilty go unpunished. At the risk of repeating myself, I'll repeat myself...
That's exactly the kind of thinking that gave us your mercifully EX-Traitor In Chief and his criminal cabal of traitors, murderers, torturers and war criminals, all of whom should be tried for their crime both in the U.S. and at the World Court at the Hague.
Israel and those they have fought all deserve justice based on the truth, no more and no less. If Israel believes they committed no crimes, let them have the balls to prove it. If not, they're the same kind of sick hypocritical pieces of shit as the Bushwhackos.
The problem is who will listen to you? Today, it's even harder to make a point because the average person is so powerless. The second you try to even begin a debate about this in any meaningful manner, you will be inundated by shrieks of "anti-semitism", "anti-jewish sentiment" and "pro-muslim tendencies". It's impossible to have any rational debate regarding Israel. The groups with power (eg AIPAC) will drown out any legitimate debate. That same real-time information stream (among others) is overly stacked against the average person. How can you expect your voice to be heard? Before, there were only 3 channels of information to voice your opinion and if you could gain airtime, then you could reach tens of millions of people. Today, there are literally thousands of channels of information. Any message would need to reach any number of channels simultaneously to reach a decent number of people. People like you and me, we can control nothing. We have only logic and facts, but money and influence easily trumps that. With enough money and power, you can change history and the facts.
Israel has no need to prove anything because it has a sponsor in the UN which will veto any war crimes accusations. It doesn't have to submit to the UN because, ultimately, the UN is a powerless entity. It has no tanks, no airplanes, not even cohesion to which force compliance. Nothing it passes is binding, that is, unless a powerful country actually wants it to be binding. Look at how many UN resolutions Israel is in defiance of. It's something like 20+. However, Israel answers to no one because it's the darling child of the US. Iran, in defiance of only a few UN resolutions, has no such powerful ally and as such, it's subject to those resolutions. When you have that kind of freedom, you can bomb anything and anyone into the Stone Age and not worry about repercussions. This is the climate that the Nazis and Stalinists operated in. You have wide latitude to do anything because ultimately, the only authority you answer to is corrupt. Israel happens to be on the right side of history right now. If/when their fortune changes, then they will be subject to the rules and laws other lesser nations are beholden to.
