Samuel Moyn, "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (FSG, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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What Happened in the Seventies?
After world war too, there's a genecide convention and nuremberg trials. But often it's its thought to be a holocast trial rather than an aggression trial. And actually the holocost is very little dealt with at the international military tribunal. The world wasn't ready for jewish death in their understanding of what had gone wrong in world war two. In a later generation, people are ready. i think americans in particular, live through a big change where they have not seen much moral problem in the civilian harm theyve perpetrated. It as anti war movements of the via nom ira are cratering ther ar.
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