…America’s war on Iraq is among the sadder epics in millennia of blood-soaked, tragedy filled history. Those murdered and those whose lives were destroyed have no heroic storyline, no grand narrative to ease their pain or to provide the sense there is any possible rhyme or purpose to this miserable existence. They were murdered; their and their family’s lives destroyed, by antique Cold Warriors and dull-eyed bureaucrats in the service of pirate capitalists and the legions of resentful fools they so easily rallied to do their bidding. Today there is weak remedy in justice, fair trials for the culpable with punishment commensurate with their crimes. Even this, far more just than the idiot, lunatic violence visited upon their victims, seems a remote possibility at present. But with anti-history framing the space between actions and their consequences, finding justice for those wronged would serve justice, and with it history.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/22/americas-willing-executioners/
The author endorses a new Nuremburg. EXCELLENT article.
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