The Normalization of Deviance
Submitted by Meteor Man on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 12:27amThe U.S. has not fomally renounced the Geneva Conventions, we simply violate them at will:
Although the U.S. government would not dare to formally renounce the Geneva Conventions, the normalization of deviance has effectively replaced them with elastic standards of behavior and accountability whose main purpose is to shield senior U.S. military officers and civilian officials from accountability for war crimes.