As an 18-year Air Force veteran with four combat tours, I can tell you a little about military culture and how dissenters are treated – as pariahs. Ironic considering that the U.S. Air Force was started by a dissenter, General Billy Mitchell, who sacrificed his career to stand up for his...
Posts Tagged “international law”
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: international law, interrogation, Iraq, Matthew Alexander, Muslims, torture, US military
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Much unease about the International Criminal Court boils down to one issue: how should its prosecutor decide, among thousands of crimes and perpetrators within his jurisdiction, which ones to charge? Prosecutorial discretion is a common method of triage in overcrowded legal systems. But it is...
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