Ba’athists aren’t a nation or ethnic group either.
Ba’athists aren’t a nation or ethnic group either.
No not really. Just because we can put the enemy into a group doesn’t make it genocide. Every war is fought against an enemy we can put into a group. The Germans in WWII were Christians. We weren’t committing genocide against Christians.
The goal in Iraq was to change the people in power. We didn’t target Ba’athists, we targeted those in power who happened to be Ba’athists. And if you recall, we did that in like 3 weeks and thought we were done. We didn’t go around rounding up Ba’athists trying to eradicate them. We got them out of power and said “mission accomplished!”
Then it turns out a lot of people, Ba’athist and non-Ba’athist, didn’t like us being there and it became a huge messy “us vs everybody.”
Unfortunately, tardigrades love the bass and cello and hate violins so the only way to get a photo of one playing the violin would be to fake it somehow
I don’t understand the idea of subjecting yourself to them long enough to get tired of them
Ok I think I get where you’re coming from. It’s membership in the nation group that makes it genocide. But that would make almost all war genocide. We could think that but it kinda takes away all meaning. If all war is genocide then no war is genocide.
It also ignores the second part of the definition, “with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” That is a basic Google/dictionary definition and it’s not bad but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined it as “…acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”
First, there has to be intent. Second, “as such” means destroying the group so much that it is no longer a group.
US law isn’t applicable but it is a little more clear.
USC 1091 defines genocide as “…specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such.”
USC 1093 defines the term “substantial part” to mean: “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”
I believe they’re both saying “destroy the group so hard it is no longer a viable group.”
If nation group is the gauge, the question is: During WWII, did the US intend to destroy Germans so thoroughly that there was no longer a Germany? Did the US intend to destroy Iraqis so thoroughly that there ceased to be an entity called Iraq?
No to both of those.