If you're going to apply this rule.....
Random thought. News today of a former dictator of Guatemala convicted of 'war crimes'. Rios Montt intentionally starved a native Mayan tribe who supported his opponents.

I don't buy the whole 'war crime' concept. Basically there's only one moral question in war: Is this war necessary? This single question factors into a few sub-questions: Are we under attack? Is the attack likely to destroy us as a nation? Can we stop the attacker?

If the answer is Yes, then there are no further moral limitations. Do absolutely everything necessary to stop the attacker. If you can stop him with a few targeted killings of leaders, fine. If you can stop him by destroying his military bases, fine. Chemical and biological weapons, fine. Massive attack on military and civilian targets, fine. If you need to rape all the wives and children of the leaders and soldiers, fine. Waterboarding and woodchippers, fine. Kill every living thing and make the land permananently uninhabitable, fine. Go as far as you need to go.

Rios Montt failed the basic question. His war was not necessary for national survival; it was solely to maintain his personal power. Thus everything he did, beyond the normal political methods like bribes, blackmail and lying, was immoral.

But since these trials seem to be popular among the Cool People and the International "Human Rights" Community, let's apply them uniformly. Let's focus all our attention on process and methods and specific types of weapons.

Among the creators of intentional famine, Rios Montt is a small player. Maybe a few thousand natives. Mao and Stalin used intentional famine to kill tens of millions.

In the same range as Rios Montt we find the Wall Street Mafia, specifically the Carbon Cult branch of the Mafia. The Carbon Cult has KNOWINGLY killed thousands of people in poor countries through its biofuel scam, and KNOWINGLY caused many thousands of deaths by freezing in Britain and other cold countries. By raising food and fuel prices beyond the ability of poor people to pay, and by forcing farmers off their land, the Carbon Cult is guilty of the same 'war crimes' as Rios Montt, on the same scale.

Time for a Gore Crimes Trial.
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