US “guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale”

The problem is that the U.S. has not been held to international standards and law by the world community; and that makes many other nations co-conspirators in a real sense. World leaders aren't blind. Since the U.S. has not signed nor recognized the ICC while many other European nations have, this presents a real problem to the European countries. They could possibly be held guilty under the same circumstances as Nuremberg, while the U.S. walks away. Again.

The only solution that I can see is for the world community to confront the U.S. as a rogue nation, and GB perhaps along with it. And then stick to the international standards and laws.

Nice and high sounding words, but that's not the way the U.S. plays. Big money given or witheld, deception and terrorism are its tools of trade; pretty hard to resist.

Crime does pay if carried out on a large and brazen enough scale, and you remain on the 'winning' side politically, and true history (not the official books) bears this out.

Britain: Former law lord says US “guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale”

One of Britain’s top judges, the recently retired Lord Steyn, said Tuesday that the Bush administration’s policy of rendition and its treatment of detainees at Guantánamo are war crimes. He added that anyone who knowingly participates in or facilitates such practices is also guilty.

Steyn was interviewed by Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow on December 6 regarding the CIA’s practice of kidnapping and flying terrorist suspects through European airports to secret detention centres outside the US, where they are subject to torture.

Steyn dismissed Rice’s assertion that existing international law was unsuited for dealing with twenty-first century terrorism, and said her claim that the US was not involved in torture could not be sustained.

“Specifically, when you refer to torture it is very important to know what is meant by torture,” he said. “I’m speaking purely as a lawyer. The US administration has adopted a definition of torture which is extremely narrow. It involves causing death, total organ failure and so forth. The true definition is much wider and it includes coercive questioning.”

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