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US troops are held accountable for "war crimes" if that's what you're wondering. https://www.rt.com/usa/180692-marine-taliban-urinating-video/ https://www.rt.c
by kodah 5y ago
US troops are held accountable for "war crimes" if that's what you're wondering. https://www.rt.com/usa/180692-marine-taliban-urinating-video/ https://www.rt.com/usa/180692-marine-taliban-urinating-video...
In that specific incident, such a degree of accountability was desired to be held that the Commandant of the Marine Corps is said to have attempted an influencing campaign around their trial: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2017/11/09/marine-who-urinated-on-dead-taliban-wins-in-court/ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2017...
I'm sure there are things the military does that go untracked, however, deploying troops are heavily trained on the Law of Land and Warfare, the Geneva Convention (which only applies to how they treat citizens of a nation and the terrorists they're fighting, not to how they will be treated.), and various others.
So, what war crimes are you wanting them to investigate that their own governing bodies have not chased?
- michael1999 5y agoThe USA ran torture sites around the world, and famously deleted the tapes. That would be a nice start.
- kodah 5y agoI guess I defaulted to understanding this in terms of US troops. What three letter agencies do is beyond me.
- michael1999 5y agoYou were careful with your claims, and I can understand your desire to defend the reputation of the regular uniforms. But you can imagine how unsatisfying that kind of lawyerly response is to someone on the outside who watches the USA do whatever they damn well please, much less someone kin to the kidnap/torture victims.
- kodah 5y agoI think in my most recent memory "war crimes" is a trigger word for an event where a bunch of "activists" harassed active duty service members live on Twitch about war crimes. I shouldn't conflate the two, but they're easily conflatable given how hyperbolic issues are at this point.
- michael1999 5y agoPeople are people. But don’t forget - many people consider the second invasion of Iraq an aggressive war of choice. And that makes every single participant a war criminal. From Bush on down to your friends.
- croes 5y agoBy US justice or international justice?
- kodah 5y agoGeneva convention is internationally set
- croes 5y agoBut the trial was a US military one and not an international. So the US military judges decided if US soldiers did something wrong.
- kodah 5y agoSort of, but not really. The UCMJ doesn't supersede Geneva Convention; if anything the Law of Land and Warfare builds on it. I can understand why civilians would think that though, we don't really teach people about how the military works so unless you've been in it, it's a black box where you fill in all the knowledge void with supposition.