Comments on: Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don’t

By: polemicscat

polemicscat — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:05:04 +0000

Let's not get hysterical about the issue. FDR incarcerated more than a hundred thousand Japanese-Americans and bombed civilians in Dresden and Tokyo where hundreds of thousands died.
Yet he is worshipped here (and would still be president if he hadn't died).

The Muslims will win because they take no prisoners and spare no civilians. Meanwhile we wallow in self doubt and irresolution about who the enemy is.

By: Sean D. McGuire

Sean D. McGuire — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:34:42 +0000

Since Congress is failing in its duty to impeach George is it really any surprise that the ICC would fail to charge him. We have fallen as a nation and apparently justice does not exist in the world. Is it time to tune our violins?

By: PcH

PcH — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:04:46 +0000

Rights activists don’t see the buffoonery in their complaint that President Bush, who has violated more human rights than any person alive, is letting China off the hook for human rights abuses by attending the Olympics hosted by China.

Well said, Dr. Roberts!

Washington is the New Nineveh; the US has become the New Assyria. Read Nahum.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:15:46 +0000

Is it also possible that the Sudan has oil which is primarily being developed by the Chinese (with all those excess Yankee dollars before they become worthless) who possess nuclear weapons and interballistic missiles up the ying yang and therefore cannot be attacked directly?

By: MAP

MAP — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:53:11 +0000

How great a distance is there between Sherman's war crimes and the incineration of women and children on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 'Might makes right' and 'ends justify means' has replaced any Christian compassion or restraint. Throw into the mix 'money is power' and warfare no longer holds any semblance of 'civilized' as a result, thus negating any meaning whatsoever of the abstract 'progress'. Hypocracy, deceit, and arrogance are poor substitutes for the concrete.

By: John F. Triolo

John F. Triolo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:41:28 +0000

"President Bush, who has violated more human rights than any person alive," Really?? You're going to go with "more...than any person alive" there? Do you think outlandish hyperbole helps the case? Let's punish our homegrown war criminals, but only in matter of crimes for which they actually are responsible, shall we?

By: NGPM

NGPM — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:43:18 +0000

"These crimes against humanity have been going on for decades." "Iraqis and Afghans can be murdered at will by American and NATO troops without anyone raising human rights issues." "President Bush, who has violated more human rights than any person alive, is letting China off the hook for human rights abuses by attending the Olympics hosted by China." "I’m for holding all governments accountable for their criminal actions. It is the hypocrisy to which I object... Even human rights groups fall into the trap." Perhaps it is the case that the culture of "human rights" (the notion of which, as conceived as by the UN and Amnesty International, is manifestly false and a cheap parody of Christian peace to boot) is intrinsically and irredeemably flawed, ill-conceived and incompetent to effect positive long-term change?

By: james

james — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:57:22 +0000

@3Kirt Higdon

And what about Amnesty International in all this.
They pressure Serbia to give up alledged war criminals to the Hague although most of the actual war criminals were bosnian muslim commanders like Nasir Oric who bragged out leading miltants to kill Serb villages in Bosnia probably killed hundreds of unarmed civilians yet gets a suspend sentence and walks free and Amnesty saids dick.

They only have to read the transcripts of the Hague trail of Milosevic to see how farcical it is yet again they say dick.

Karadzic will get as fair a trail as Ernst Zundel did in Germany were his lawyer got sentenced to 3 1/2 years for putting up a good defence for her client.

If its anything like Human Rights Watch's board of directors http://www.rusjournal.com/ngos.html no wonder theres an anti-Serb bias.

By: Kirt Higdon

Kirt Higdon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:52:34 +0000

Well put. And today we hear of the arrest of Karadzic, another "war criminal" whose real crime was to oppose the imperial policies of the US and its entourage of client states. If they don't have the evidence to convict him, they'll just keep the trial going and keep him in prison until he dies as they did with Milosevic.

By: First, You Get The Money, Then You Get The Power, Then You Can Commit The Genocide : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:49:55 +0000

[...] Paul Craig Roberts wonders why some leaders get called out as war criminals and others don’t: I have no sympathy for people who make others suffer. Nevertheless, I wonder at the International Criminal Court’s pick from the assortment of war criminals. Why al-Bashir?Is it because Sudan is a powerless state, and the International Criminal Court hasn’t the courage to name George W. Bush and Tony Blair as war criminals? [...]