The importance of Nuremberg is that it established for international law the principle that “following orders” did not absolve the accused of his guilt. Therefore, I claim Nuremberg’s principles (and the principles of Robert H. Jackson, the U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg) to argue that the U.S. soldiers who participated in the slaughters and colonial humiliation of this second Iraqi war should not be absolved of their responsibility for carrying out their illegal and unnecessary war orders. If it was good enough a standard to apply to the Nazi fascists and to the Japanese militarists, it is good enough to apply to our American neoconservative ideologues and their troops on the global chessboard. tinyurl/oyuuvn5
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:22:01 +0000