The Ghosts of Nuremberg

[PsychoDad]

The Ghosts of Nuremberg
by Michael Gaddy

There was a time in this country when the Golden Rule actually had meaning. We were quick to criticize those who would attack another sovereign nation without provocation. We used to call those who were attacked and were fighting to defend their country from such aggression, freedom fighters, or at least rebels. Now that we are the aggressor nation, those labels have been changed to "insurgents, militants" or "dead-enders," but that was before God started dictating our foreign policy, using George W. Bush as his spokesperson. It sure changes things when "the big guy" is on your side. I really cannot see why Bush and company bothered with all those lies about WMDs and al-Qaeda connections. Perhaps the democrats would not accept divine intervention.

This crime against the peace was a brand new charge, never before seen in international law. American prosecutors, led by Justice Jackson, had a more sweeping view of justice in mind. They saw the supreme crime at Nuremberg not in any specific act of Nazi mass killing, nor in the construction of the death camps like Auschwitz. For American prosecutors, the supreme crime was a completely new criminal charge: waging aggressive war, or the crime against peace.

Even though Winston Churchill, Henry Morgenthau and Cordell Hull advocated summary executions of those accused, and Stalin suggested that Nazis should stand trial with a presumption of guilt, and that judges presiding over their trials should concern themselves with determining the degree of punishment, Jackson, with the full support of President Truman, advocated that Nazi leaders be tried, but that they be subject to a fair trial. Individuals – political and military leaders – were to be held accountable by an international authority for atrocities committed in the name of the State.

Is it any wonder that the United States, led by George W. Bush, has said that we no longer believe in the role such as that taken by this country at Nuremberg. Bush says that no American soldier should ever face trial in anything but a U.S. court. Is it not hypocritical for the United States to stand in judgment of anyone, in any country, for any offense, if that is our position? Can we sentence citizens of Iraq to die for the sins of Saddam, by American bombs and missiles, and be accountable to no one? Would we have allowed the Germans to try their leaders and soldiers at the end of the war? And we think people hate us because we are free!

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Can US afford to isolate itself from the world?

Well since your president only want good news guess he is not going to read the writings on the wall until he bring total disaster on USA.
Its frightening how Bush and Co can actually hijack the whole country and divide the nation in such a way no president has ever done before.
It is also frightening that the partisan behavior of the political party has make the elected representative so blind to the danger that USA is heading toward.
All this will come to an end sooner or later. When Americans finally wake up to the realities I wonder how elected representatives are going to sort it out. How will the Americans people react to all the harm cause to this once great nation.
The saddest part is that the healing need within the US is going to be a long painful process. The longer the delay to embark on this process the harder will be the road. The contest of the electoral votes is but the first step on this journey. It is a long and difficult road and hopefully at the end of this road US can be united once again within itself and with the rest of the world. It is time many on this forum put aside their differences and realize the need to work together to reverse the direction of this insane direction that the present administration has embarked on.

[Taxloss]

2. The US needs the world.

It needs huge markets to support its corporate economy.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. But at this rate the world might not need the US

All this UN bashing is bad news. Already Americans are remove from all top UN post. The US might and can lose its membership. When that happen, its likely UN will play hardball on Iraq and it might lead to an economic sanction on US and all US companies. The US military might dont mean a thing if the UN decide to act. There is not way the US can win this.