The Dig: American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Jacobin Radio
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Is the International Law of War Creating Trauma?
The international laws of war and the codes of conduct are themselves creating trauma, says Peter Bergen. "One can understand what one did as immoral, but it may well have been what you had to do in those circumstances" This is a very relativist then conception of the moral, which was very different than a kind of critique of atrocity in Vietnam," he adds.
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