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wPuri sermonis amator |
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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wTuesday, April 22, 2003 |
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It's funny, the lines on what is and is not a war crime really depend on who wins the war. I scream "War Criminal" when Barry McCaffrey is on TV because there is clear evidence that he broke the Iraq ceasefire in '91 and killed a bunch of retreating troops. But he's a U.S. General, so he won't ever be tried. That's a clear war crime, though.
Is bulldozing a residential area in Palestine a war crime? Not really, it's more on par with the Holocaust or the Trail of Tears - abusing an oppressed minority within one's own state.
Was Churchill a criminal for ordering the bombing of Dresden?
But anyway, what do you think about us keeping kids locked up at Gitmo?
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 10:08 AM
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