War Crimes and the American Conscience
Description:... What individual responsibility does the soldier, the military commander, the government bureaucrat, the elected political leader, and the ordinary citizen bear for illegal and immoral policies and actions undertaken by his nation? The editore note: "It would have been inconceivable only a few years ago that a serious and searching discussion of war crimes - including American war crimes - could be conducted under Congressional auspices at the Capitol of the United States. Traditionally, each nation denounces the "war crimes" of its enemies, while justifying its own conduct in time of war, no matter how flagrantly that conduct may violate established standards of law and morality. But the disastrous continuation of the war in Southeast Asia and the disclosure of the massacre at My Lai have raised many americans to a new level of consciousness - and conscience- about the policies pursued by their Government, and the actions that flow from these policies"
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