Robert Higgs, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, on Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq?:
If today the U.S. government were to put itself on trial, on the same basis it employed to try the Nazis at Nuremberg, for actions taken in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years, it might have to convict itself—if only for the sake of consistency. Justice is no respecter of person. Can anyone sincerely maintain that what was a crime for Hermann Goering and Alfred Jodl is not equally a crime for Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?
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