Nuremberg: The crime of aggression was ‘the supreme international crime’

View Peter Beinart on America, Iran and the Lessons of Nuremberg (10 min): “We think now of Nuremberg as having put nazi leaders on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity… but in fact, what the Tribune said was that the crime of aggression was ‘the supreme international crime’ differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole….”