Postindustrial Founder Carmen Gentile discusses war crimes and the unfortunate fact that several American leaders have committed them.
Killing defenseless men clinging to the wreckage of a boat blown up by the US military without probable cause is bad and could likely constitute a war crime.
However, it’s hardly the first time an American official has carried out such an atrocity.
From Henry Kissinger’s secret war in Cambodia (up to 150,000 dead) to George W. Bush’s war in Iraq (half a million or more) and even Barack Obama’s overdependence on drones (thousands killed, including American citizens and civilians), legitimate cases can be made that their actions also constituted crimes.
Not to minimize the allegations against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. But let’s be honest: we had leaders who have done far worse, something that we should address as a nation.
As Carmen writes in his recent column: “We cannot be a country that cries foul over the terror and violence committed by others against us when we overlook, hell, sometimes even celebrate, our own.”
