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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (199201)8/29/2006 7:30:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Japan and Germany have a tradition of fair trials with respect for the rights of defendants. That tradition might not go back forever, and might not be perfect, but its long enough and good enough to trust them in prosecuting our soldiers. Iraq has no such tradition.

Also sometimes our soldiers are protected from prosecution, at least to an extent by status of forces agreements or other agreements with the host nation. So as I said before such an agreement isn't unusual, and doesn't make us in to an occupying empire.

For example in the Philippines there is the Visiting Forces Agreement. Which prevents the Philippines from prosecuting American soldiers for most crimes.

Whether such agreements are good ideas for the host country or not could certainly be debated. In many cases they are probably not, and they are often controversial. But they don't mean that we have some "permanent rights of conquest", or that we are acting as an occupying empire, or that American soldiers are above the law and not subject to any prosecution.
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