To say that motives are irrevelant is specious, and your argument a particularly poor straw man. The ends do not justify the means, but they help. Anyone can claim any motive, yes. But they have to be able to back it up.
Regardless genocide implies intent; and this is something demonstrably not present on the part of the US.
OK, so is it any less wrong to kill 100 people intentionally as opposed to unintenionally*? Motives should not be mitigating circumstances. They matter in an anstract sense, but knowing that the person had no evil, diabolical plan to kill thousands doesn't make those thousands any less dead
*though I don't see how you can start a war and then claim that any deaths that ensue in the waging of that war are unintended. Every two-year old can tell you that wars kill, so the consequences could have been forseen relatively easily.
Rictor, you didn't actually answer karas' question, did you?
Let me ask you this then Rictor. What do you think the UN should have done about the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo?
Nothing. Europe, and indeed the world, has been engaged in almost constant war for more than two millenia. It is only in the past few decades, the blink of eye in historical terms, that Europe has embraced its new-found peacefullness and civility which they are so quick to hold over the the people of the great barbarian hinterlands (aka the world). Every European leader of note in the past God knows how long would be tried as a war criminal if he were to live in the present day. So I think it's ever so slightly hypocritical that the two continents which perfected the art of war and empire, Europe and America, get up on their high horse and condemn all the the filthy savages who dare fire a shot in anger without asking permission first. Wars between neighbors, be they in the Balkans, Asia, Africa or elsewhere, are as frequent as they are inevtiable. Pretty much every inch of the Balkans has been taken and retaken two dozen times, and it's only this last time that the "international community", the West, has been appaled? Please. If you want to preach about peace and brotherly love, bring a priest. But don't expect me to take the sermon seriously from the heads of the most agressive continent in history. Don't expect me to take it seriously from what is perhaps the most warlike nation of the past half-century.
Like I said, if justice can not be administered equally, that is to say all wars punished, than it's absurd to pick-and-choose which wars are going to selectively be punished and which ones tolerated. Until I see every statesman responsible for leading his nation to war, from the highest to the lowest, on trial at the Hague, that institution has ho legitimacy because it is failing to perform its main duty which is to serve as an impartial court of justice.
