Chomsky’s a mixed bag, but damn I love it when he’s right.

The Nuremberg trials were lousy, but not because they were prosecuting Axis officials. They were lousy because of how half‐assed they were. John J. McCloy thwarted the trials, Axis businessmen quickly returned to their positions, and as John Laughland observed, the prosecution could have easily tried some Allied officials too, but declined to do so. Perhaps the trials’ only redeeming quality was their prosecution of some Axis officials, and they barely got that right.