I can’t say whether they should have, but I can say that part of the reason international law is a joke among friends is that it was designed such that this wou

I can’t say whether they should have, but I can say that part of the reason international law is a joke among friends is that it was designed such that this would be the question. The US committed atrocities in the war, and it also took extreme measures in the war which shouldn’t be judged as harshly. But we don’t have a meaningful framework to reconcile those because reconciling them is intentionally excluded from the framework.