Honestly, someone people need to bone up on international convention… and realize blogs ain’t needs feeds. D’you go onto pro-Palestinian ones and complain they’re not discussing Korea?

Any foreign plaintiff who alleges that the United States has in fact done any of those things can indeed file suit against the U.S. government in a U.S. federal district court. Foreign plaintiffs sue the United States for various things all the time. Rule 28(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows a plaintiff to give depositions or submit statements from abroad without setting foot in the United States. For actions occurring inside the United States, the plaintiff could sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act or allege constitutional violations against individual officers under Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). For actions committed abroad, a plaintiff could sue for “violations of the laws of nations” such as slavery and piracy under the Alien Tort Statute or, depending on the right allegedly violated, under Bivens.

What makes your comment particularly dumb are the manifest reasons why this isn’t happening more often — largely because the governments of the nations of which you speak do not value or protect the individual rights of their own citizens. First, unlike the United States, they probably haven’t waived sovereign immunity to allow their own citizens to sue their own government, and the last thing they want their citizens to see is the idea that individuals have rights, or that governments are accountable for violating them. Second, they don’t have fair and functioning court systems that allow even the most hostile parties a fair hearing. Third, all of those governments depend on the generosity of the American people in the form of humanitarian aid they’d rather not jeopardize; after all, it’s a very lucrative source of graft and patronage.

By the way, none of the lawsuits here are about war-like acts between nation-states, acts that are generally considered immune from suit by all countries. If that were not the case, then South Korea could have sued North Korea for starting the damn war in the first place.

Are you being stupid intentionally, or are you just Canadian?

I think you ought to have your own web site. For your first post, I’d like you to poll some Iraqi voters about how much they’d like Saddam back.

And dispossesd Palestinians can sue us for supporting Israel, right? Because their legislature can, by statute, revoke the “soverign immunity” of our government.

And North Korea can sue us for bombing their cities during the war.

Lawsuits are a heck of a strategy. No possibility of blowback.