The People's Voice
Steve Lendman
Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing "the supreme international crime against peace."
Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity.
On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 - 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence.
It wasn't an isolated incident. It happens regularly in all US wars. Rarely is anyone held accountable, especially responsible parties up the chain of command to the top. More on that below.
On March 22, The New York Times headlined, "US Sergeant Faces 17 Counts of Murder in Afghan Killings," saying:
Sergeant Robert Bales "is accused of walking away from his remote base in southern Afghanistan and shooting and stabbing members of several families in a nighttime ambush."
He alone was charged for what up to 19 others committed.
"The Army has not suggested a motive."
Commanders deploy similar death squads regularly to kill with impunity. Bales is the exception that proves the rule. Like others occasionally charged, it's done to absolve higher-ups. Guilt goes right to the top.
In his 1948 book titled, "Politics Among Nations; the Struggle for Power and Peace
," Hans Morganthau discussed post-WW II political realism and power politics.
His vision was darkly Hobbesian. He called international law, world organizations, and morality "irrelevant" when nations go to war. Winning alone matters. At issue is gaining absolute power at the expense of rule of law principles, democratic values, targeted countries, and most people everywhere.
Today's America reflects his might over right theme. It's likely worse than he imagined, given weapons able to destroy humanity and perhaps one day do it.
In his book titled, "Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
," Francis Boyle wrote:
Steve Lendman
Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity.
On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 - 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence.
It wasn't an isolated incident. It happens regularly in all US wars. Rarely is anyone held accountable, especially responsible parties up the chain of command to the top. More on that below.
On March 22, The New York Times headlined, "US Sergeant Faces 17 Counts of Murder in Afghan Killings," saying:
Sergeant Robert Bales "is accused of walking away from his remote base in southern Afghanistan and shooting and stabbing members of several families in a nighttime ambush."
He alone was charged for what up to 19 others committed.
"The Army has not suggested a motive."
Commanders deploy similar death squads regularly to kill with impunity. Bales is the exception that proves the rule. Like others occasionally charged, it's done to absolve higher-ups. Guilt goes right to the top.
In his 1948 book titled, "Politics Among Nations; the Struggle for Power and Peace
," Hans Morganthau discussed post-WW II political realism and power politics.His vision was darkly Hobbesian. He called international law, world organizations, and morality "irrelevant" when nations go to war. Winning alone matters. At issue is gaining absolute power at the expense of rule of law principles, democratic values, targeted countries, and most people everywhere.
Today's America reflects his might over right theme. It's likely worse than he imagined, given weapons able to destroy humanity and perhaps one day do it.
In his book titled, "Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
," Francis Boyle wrote:
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