Pat Lang asks a simple question:
“I was ordered to…” has been a a discredited and unacceptable basis for a defense in war crimes trial since the trials of the Nazis at Nuremberg. “Things were tough…” is an equally discredited defense.
What are we saying? Is it our position that international law applies to eveyone but us and that it does not apply to us because we are “special?”
Are we that childish?
Well, no, we’re not that childish. But our chattering class is.
