War crime vs Crime against the Peace

DavidByron2

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 7:14 PM PST

2004/11/19 · 19:14

Here's an odd thing.

In discussing the war it seems almost everyone agrees that a soldier who commits a war crime is culpable. If he knowingly shoots a civilian for example, even when ordered to by a superior, he commits a crime. But almost nobody seems to think that a soldier should be held personally accountable for the worse crime known as a crime against the peace, by which I mean the particpation in a criminal war itself. Why is this? Read More

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