“A corporation pays an affordable sum in damages. The court issues a stern scolding. Onward to business as usual.” “Criminal prosecutions usually target executives, rather than the companies they run – and even then, accountability is rare. ‘I can only think of three businessmen who’ve been convicted over the last 20 years, for complicity in war crimes or crimes against humanity – and none before that,’ says Mark Taylor, the author of a book titled War Economies and International Law . ‘And I can’t think of a single company that has ever been convicted on either of these charges’.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51