How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780745321523)

They call it "collateral damage," but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a "humanitarian intervention," in Afghanistan, "self-defense," and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of "supreme international crimes." So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America and always wind up putting America's enemies -- "the usual suspects" -- on trial? This new book by renowned scholar Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.

Author: Michael Mandel
ISBN-10: 0745321526
ISBN-13: 9780745321523
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2004
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.44w x 0.85d