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How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Author: Michael Mandel
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They call it collateral damage, but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a humanitarian intervention, in Afghanistan, self-defense, and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of supreme international crimes. So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America and always wind up putting Americas enemies -- the usual suspects -- on trial? This new book by renowned scholar Michael Mandel offers a critical account of Americas illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted Americas leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
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They call it collateral damage, but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a humanitarian intervention, in Afghanistan, self-defense, and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of supreme international crimes. So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America and always wind up putting Americas enemies -- the usual suspects -- on trial? This new book by renowned scholar Michael Mandel offers a critical account of Americas illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted Americas leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
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