I can't buy that it magically changes after the peace treaty gets signed. That is because I don't think you could really pick wartime over peacetime as a paradigm for justice.

I can't swallow the idea that the postwar Nuremberg trials were wholly wrong, or even fundamentally unjust, either.

Pierce, no economic sanction has ever halted a genocide, period. You halt a genocide by killing the Einsatzkommandos and, perhaps later but necessarily surely, those who sent them. Period. The hatred that drives any genocide vanishes when the brain that holds it explodes in pink mist. As many times as necessary. I mean, you would want genocide to stop, yes? And doubly so were it a genocide of people like you?

I ask you, were the world to know that genocidal thinking carried a sentence of death, how popular would it be? I don't think it'd be very popular at all.