Hey, isn't opposing anything on principle, without regard for the consequences (such as, will the conviction of Pinochet bring positive results, regardless of why it takes place or what other person won't be prosecuted), the very essence of moralism?
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> Neither China nor the EU nor any other core military power
> is going to
> prosecute any u.s. war criminal - and it is just as absurd
> to envision
> the u.s. prosecuting a French war criminal. (It was France,
> after all,
> that was primarily responsible for the Rwanda, but only
> local villains
> were (or ever will be) punished.
>
> The punishment of War Criminals remains, unambiguously, a
> form of
> Victor's Justice, and as such is to be opposed.
>
> Carrol
>
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