The War Itself Is a Crime
April 30, 2016
The U.S. troops who defended our freedom by attacking a hospital in Afghanistan and killing 42 people did not commit a war crime, says the Pentagon; they only committed a mistake. This is an outrage, of course, but let’s never lose sight of the big picture: the war in Afghanistan is itself a crime. Bush and company are the real war criminals.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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