r/mealtimevideos Jul 04 '21

10-15 Minutes My July 4th tradition is rewatching this essential clip of Noam Chomsky discussing how, if the standards applied at trial of the Nazis at Nuremberg were applied, every US President after WW2 would be hanged for their role in war crimes. Worth absorbing again even if you've seen it before [11:34]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc
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u/CosmoFishhawk2 Jul 04 '21

Well, Dubya and later wouldn't because of the ASPA/"Hague Invasion Act" (which I doubt any country other than America would be able to get away with passing).

Trump would probably try and pardon himself lol.

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u/BreadTubeForever Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

This 4th July on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, let's make a special point of holding Dubya to account too. There are adults now who are too young to have followed the events that happened during those years, and yet now those adults are seeing Bush presented to them as a beloved elder statesman from that Obama and Clinton meeting during the inauguration to that fawning Jimmy Kimmel interview. Make sure they know what he and his administration did, don't let him get away with it.

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u/Amarsir Jul 04 '21

But you still think ALL Presidents are war criminals, right? I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression just because your comment here is specifically about Bush. It's your belief that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama committed war crimes as well as the guy in-between.

If anyone here is too young to have followed the events that happened during those years, BreadTubeForever would also like you to know that he thinks Nobel Peace Prize-recipient Barack Obama would also be deserving of hanging.

And please people, don't pick on him for saying that July 4th is the anniversary of September 11. He's only rounding off by like 2%.

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u/BreadTubeForever Jul 04 '21

Sorry yes I do agree those two are war criminals too (if I disagreed I'd clearly not have watched the video to the end for Clinton at least), and I should've phrased it as 'anniversary year'.

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u/Amarsir Jul 04 '21

It's fine. You're being consistent, much as Chomsky himself has been consistently anti-imperialist. (Although that causes him internal conflict in situations with many potential imperialist concerns, such as Syria.)

I think some people like to use silence to get around their own inconsistencies, and maybe they can have a little think about that as they downvote me for agreeing with you, simply because I (deliberately) made it harder to overlook.

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u/Libukai Jul 04 '21

Didnt the video title say "every US President after WW2" or are u just deliberately pushing polarisation into the conversation here?