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Re:Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over” by ravenscrow on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:44PM (#17269970)
> this is the time to apply the principle of charity, this is the time to remember the good things he's done, and not the bad.

It's silly to ignore the war crimes and the deaths of hundreds of thousands just because a war criminal is dying.

> Remember that he's one of the guys consistently disagreeing with Trump (which is still rare amongst republicans).

Rare? The entire republican establishment has come out against Trump - mccain, graham, romney, etc.

And krauthammer doesn't consistently disagree with trump. He supported trump's illegal attacks on syria.

Re:Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over” by CWuestefeld on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:55PM (#17270052)
Elsewhere you said The point of an opinion piece is to lie, cajole, trick, etc people into accepting your opinion or viewpoint.

It seems you may be doing that right now. You're calling Krauthammer a war criminal, which is patently false. He may be wrong-headed, but since he never actually acted in the war, never served as an agent of the government, it's flat-out false to refer to him as a "war criminal".

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Re:Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over” by CWuestefeld on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:19PM (#17270194)
You can have your own opinion, but you've got to build it on some foundation.

stop acting like "war crime" is some universal objective term that we can all agree to. It isn't.

Ummm. Yes it is well defined. And what you're complaining about isn't in that definition.

On July 1, 2002, the International Criminal Court, a treaty-based court located in The Hague, came into being for the prosecution of war crimes committed on or after that date. ...

War crimes are defined in the statute that established the International Criminal Court, which includes: [followed by a list that formats poorly here, so I'll just leave the link] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#International_Crimin...

Re:Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over” by oxide on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:18PM (#17270192)
I'm pretty sure there is absolutely an objective definition of what is and is not a war crime.