If the venture was required as an act of justice to our fellow beings, then what was required was the willingness to bear the risks and not to shift the risks disproportionately upon the civilian population. NATO is going to have to answer questions about whether it violated international law in its irresponsible targeting procedures. Yet others would sweep these arguments aside. The reason for defeating Serbia is that it was an international menace. It was the right thing to do.
International law is essentially at any time what the states say it is.
Unless, of course, a new world system has set aside national sovereignty in favor of the authority of international courts. . . . . . . . . . . . . The IEA Proposed Indictment Makes Its Case . . . . . . . . . . . . Excerpts from the Proposed IEA Indictment of President Clinton and Defense Secretary Cohen for War Crimes filed with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. . . . . The killing, injuring, terrorizing and destruction of the homes of thousands of Serbian and other civilians in former Yugoslavia, including, but not limited to such acts described by former President Carter as . . . . The use of specific types of cluster bombs that are designed to kill and maim humans and are condemned almost universally by other nations, as are land mines. . . . .