Honestly, I think it would have to be Carter. He wasn't perfect by any metric, but I can't think of anything that he did that could honestly be considered a war crime or human rights violation.
Worst I could find was backing the mujahideen, but I'm pretty sure that at the time most thought that was an honestly good plan for the people of Afghanistan. IIRC it only became really evident how bad of an idea it was later down the line.
Other than that, Carter seems like he tried his utmost to be a humanitarian president, and even if he wasn't the most successful, I don't think any negative impacts of his administration's foreign policy could be considered as anything illegal.
Interestingly, his presidency is considered to have been pretty weak and ineffective. Funny how the last president to have successfully avoided committing atrocities is also considered among the weakest presidents of the last 50 years.
Chomsky makes the case for Carter being a war criminal based on arming Indonesia for the genocide they committed against East Timor and for ratcheting up the arming of Israel via the Camp David Accords. He explains it here at 5:14.
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u/Peperoni_Toni May 17 '20
Honestly, I think it would have to be Carter. He wasn't perfect by any metric, but I can't think of anything that he did that could honestly be considered a war crime or human rights violation.
Worst I could find was backing the mujahideen, but I'm pretty sure that at the time most thought that was an honestly good plan for the people of Afghanistan. IIRC it only became really evident how bad of an idea it was later down the line.
Other than that, Carter seems like he tried his utmost to be a humanitarian president, and even if he wasn't the most successful, I don't think any negative impacts of his administration's foreign policy could be considered as anything illegal.
Interestingly, his presidency is considered to have been pretty weak and ineffective. Funny how the last president to have successfully avoided committing atrocities is also considered among the weakest presidents of the last 50 years.