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"LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war c
by malandrew 13y ago
"LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been
prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He,
and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay
recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral
if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you
lose and not immoral if you win?"
Robert S. McNamara, in the documentary series The Fog of War.
[0] http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html
- tehwalrus 13y agoInternational law is a joke when only people who lose wars are prosecuted. (I have a lot to say on this point, but I'll leave it at that and point you to this[1]) [1] a series of three blog posts, old now and in need of rewriting: http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/the-failure-of-the-state/ http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/the-failure-of-the-state/ http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/lie-back-and-think-of-england/ http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/lie-back-and-think-of-engl... http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/fluffy-federalism/ http://politicomaniac.net/2011/02/fluffy-federalism/