"Loss of influence is not enough. Trial by an outside party is typically limited to the aftermath of a coup, revolution or military occupation, when the former leadership are no longer being protected by their country. It's unlikely that current or former US administrations will ever have much to worry about from the rest of the world."
It has been moving slowly, but the 20th C. saw the first inroads against impunity by criminal-leaders of "sovereign" nation-states, and I am optimistic, especially about the (IMO) overall positive trajectory indicated by the Pinochet-era prosecutions--even if they are still hardly "typical."
We shall see.
BTW, yes, of course I know the Pinochet-DINA bastards got off easy, vs. what true justice demanded:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#Legal_actions
But just the sheer number of loose assholes the investigations must have induced from those sons of bitches is worth something.
On 5/25/09, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:46 -1000, socialismorbarbarism wrote:
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> > All it takes is a continuation of the slide in US global
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