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by Cthulhu_ 1577 days ago
It's double standards; the US is guilty of war crimes and has yet to face any consequences or even condemnation. They got away with labeling people as a category putting them outside of the US's own legal system, international law, and the Geneva Convention; oh no they're not enemy soldiers / POWs, they are terrorists, it's Different. That led to them being put in CIA black sites and Gitmo and made them victims of inhumane treatment and routine torture. Some have been incarcerated for twenty years now without trial. The world knows, footage from the humiliation and sexual abuse in gitmo came out years and years ago... and nothing happened.

If this was e.g. a central or eastern European country, its leaders would be on trial in The Hague by now.