You're correct, Ashley. The Thai "elites" only murder the people in Thailand.

The USA killed 3 million Vietnamese some thirty years ago. Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Barack Obama defends the use of landmines... still killing Laos and Cambodians every day.

During the Nuremberg trial, the chief American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, stated:

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Six decades later, the USA is responsible for a million deaths in Iraq and the destruction of that country as well. Our Nobel Peace Prize laureate president escalates his own unholy war as I write.

Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan... these countries were laid waste and destroyed for naught but the benefit of the arms driven economy of the USA. It's a crime coming and going.

“Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children...”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953. The theft continues unabated, institutionalized, to this day.

According to reports, the US Marines in Afghanistan use 800,000 gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that comes to a $320,000,000 daily fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country totally out of control would squander resources in this way.

We're not only profligately burning ours and the world's resources at an horrific rate, the goal of this profligacy is the murder of innocent Afghans of all genders and ages and the destruction of Afghanistan.

We the American people can end this nightmare much more easily than the Thai people can end theirs, yet we cannot be bothered to stoop down and pick up the tools of democracy and do so.

So who, ultimately, are the War Criminals in a democracy?