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Only the losing parties get prosecuted.

• hef19898 5y ago
  And only once the "middle management" died of old age a decade ago.
• dtech 5y ago
  I wouldn't exactly call US the winner of the Vietnam or Iraq wars
  • DennisAleynikov 5y ago
    would you consider Vietnam to be in a position to write and have their own side of it become history?
• dane-pgp 5y ago
  That's sort of an unhelpful truism. By definition, the losing parties don't have control of a judicial system within which a trial of the winning parties could take place. If what you mean is "winning parties don't prosecute their own side", then I would also disagree with that, since some countries do believe that the rules they are ostensibly fighting for do apply to themselves: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/29/afghanistan-british-army-crimes https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/29/afghan...