Damus
Raison d'État · 6w
Robbery is a better crime than murder. But both are crimes worthy of investigation and punishment. My grandfather was in Changi, was tortured, all his friends died, and he weighed 48 lbs when libera...
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I assume you mean 48kgs, 48 lbs wouldn't be survivable. We like to pretend that we're good but war crimes (which are a pretty new concept) were being committed by Oz troops in WW1 as well. Canadians, who now have a rep for niceness were perhaps the most deranged, bloodthirsty troops in WW1.

The asynchronous nature of modern conflict is why we (the west) continually end up in decades long quagmires (luckily for the US that just happens to be their goal most of the time)
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Raison d'État · 6w
War crimes are not a new concept at all. Lowland chimpanzees seem to have no concept of ius gentium, but every remote tribal human society seems to have. What those laws and customs are varies enormously, of course. Its only the culture of impunity fostered by State hierarchies that allows war cr...