[lbo-talk] Ace nails it

[Carrol Cox]

socialismorbarbarism wrote:
> 
> 
> 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."

No. All these "advances" have been instances of winner's justice. You
are completely safe from being prosecuted for war crimes as long as your
state wins the war. If you lose the war, you can get prosecuted for war
crimes whether or not you committed any. War-crimes trials are almost
always a travesty of justice. The Nuremberg Trials set a very bad
precedent.

Carrol