In other words, victor’s justice. It is what passes off as justice in all human societies at any rate. It may not be fair, but on the other hand arguments can be made that no justice is entirely fair because things are viewed simply viewed differently by people of different interests. Hence, therefore, a BBC comedy show once had this verdict on the Iraq war:
“Is it a just war? No, it’s just a war.”
Here’s a media example of “victor’s justice”, this time a story (in full) reflecting on Nuremberg:
Did Hitler’s crimes justify the Allies’ terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, “Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War”:
“The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities.”
Atheist, Trotskyite and newborn neocon, Hitchens embraces the morality of ‘lex talionis’ - an eye for an eye. If Germans murdered women and children, the British were morally justified in killing German women and children.
According to British historians, however, Churchill ordered the initial bombing of German cities on his first day in office, the very first day of the Battle of France, on May 10, 1940.
After the fall of France, Churchill wrote Lord Beaverbrook, minister of air production: “When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path ... an absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.”
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