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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
The US has always been very wary of war crimes issues. They are reluctant to allow their servicemen to stand trial in any other forum than an American court.
Part of it is a reputation thing as the US government has always been keen to be seen as the "good guys", having a soldier in the Hague on trial for warcrimes is not a good image. Better to have that same soldier on the lesser charge of murder in an American court.
This is not being anti-American, it's just a fact.
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Yes, having a soldier stand trial at Hague for warcrimes is not good for the national image, but I wonder if they realize, it's not pretty good for the image either not to hand the guy over to Hague, when the case is pretty clear?
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