[coffinbirth]

It sadly never happened for the perpetrators of the Iraq/Ukraine/Libya/Afghan/Syria/Yugoslav/... wars. Remember Collateral Murder? And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Also, no one really cared about all the veterans back home, many of whom suffered and still suffer from PTSD. The U.S. truly is the biggest sh*thole on earth.

[ncallaway]

The fact that it didn't happen for the those previous administrations is why it's happening again now.

If those previous administrations had been tried for their various crimes, and the guilty parties were cooling their heels in a jail cell, then we probably wouldn't be seeing this action tonight.

[tonyhart7]

"If those previous administrations had been tried for their various crimes"

and yeah who is gonna charge them ???? US have (arguably) strongest military on earth, who can put justice to them if not themselves ???? and themselves I mean US Gov. which is would never happen since every administration have "blood" in some form and another

[ncallaway]

> and yeah who is gonna charge them ???? US have (arguably) strongest military on earth, who can put justice to them if not themselves ????

It must be us. It must be the American people.

This is (one of) the deepest moral failings of our voting public that we haven’t demanded it of our leadership.

You’re right that our leadership won’t do it unless the people absolutely demand it.

And… well, we haven’t demanded it.

So, the failure to bring them to justice belongs to me, and to every other American citizen that is eligible to cast a ballot.

[JumpCrisscross]

> since every administration have "blood" in some form and another

Trump 45 could have come on board with a clean slate. Hell, Trump 47 started out without too much war-crimey cruft from his first term.

Dude went on a witch hunt and forgot to bring his pitchfork.

[SpicyLemonZest]

The problem is that nearly everyone in the US national security establishment believes that the US should be involved in lots of wars. You may recall how little sympathy Biden got for pulling out of Afghanistan. I genuinely don’t think you could assemble Washington staff with the foreign policy expertise a president requires without ending up with a majority who support bombing Maduro.

[craftkiller]

Withdrawing from Afghanistan may have occurred under Biden, but it was Trump who made the decision to pull out. The only change Biden made was delaying our withdraw by a couple of months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_...

[ric2b]

Libya was a UN Security Council resolution, doesn't get any more legit than that.