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halialkers As prelude, first, there are good reasons for the USA to be held accountable for war crimes stretching back to the Korean War. There are also regular calls for the USA to be put through the war crimes trials other states have been put through, by Americans as well as people from other countries.
But.......
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/middleeast/syria-russia-aleppo-civilian-areas/index.html
Where are all the cries for Russians to be prosecuted for war crimes for deliberate targeting and murdering of civilians from the air in Syria? Where are all the non-Russians calling for that? Where are all the zealous Western Leftists who rightly identify US war crimes as what they are?
I know where Chomsky is, denying the war crimes until they're undeniable and then clinging to US war crimes in other wars and other decades to avoid dealing with anyone else's.
If international law is to have any meaning at all, and the people who object to crimes committed during wars likewise are to have any credibility, there should be at least some attempt to get Russians held accountable too.
There is none. None whatsoever.
As always it's easier to criticize the state with the privatized Gulag that's usually incapable of tying its shoes without face-planting into concrete than the one that regularly invades its neighbors and Aum Shrinrikos on steroids its dissidents abroad. One doesn't quite literally put life and limb at risk, the other very much does.
But.......
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/middleeast/syria-russia-aleppo-civilian-areas/index.html
Where are all the cries for Russians to be prosecuted for war crimes for deliberate targeting and murdering of civilians from the air in Syria? Where are all the non-Russians calling for that? Where are all the zealous Western Leftists who rightly identify US war crimes as what they are?
I know where Chomsky is, denying the war crimes until they're undeniable and then clinging to US war crimes in other wars and other decades to avoid dealing with anyone else's.
If international law is to have any meaning at all, and the people who object to crimes committed during wars likewise are to have any credibility, there should be at least some attempt to get Russians held accountable too.
There is none. None whatsoever.
As always it's easier to criticize the state with the privatized Gulag that's usually incapable of tying its shoes without face-planting into concrete than the one that regularly invades its neighbors and Aum Shrinrikos on steroids its dissidents abroad. One doesn't quite literally put life and limb at risk, the other very much does.
