Ironically, it was an advantage of the Nuremberg courts that they were staffed by the representatives of the victorious powers.

Soon after May 16, the largest single party that emerges will seek to construct a coalition out of a diverse array of victors from the various states.

After the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the bipolar world order, victorious Western capitalism, under the leadership of the only world power, the United States, reigned supreme in global politics, and even more so in the global economy.

Pouya says that extremist and fundamentalist forces are the real winners of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.Iranian blogger adds the fundamentalists need chaos in society to push their agenda.

This antiquated international spoils system is a leftover of the post World War II order, in which the victorious powers divided the leading positions in the world economic institutions among themselves.

The difference between these victorious leftists and El Salvador s FMLN will be revealed when the FMLN s old characteristics as an armed movement are challenged by the daily facts of governance.

For example, the victorious powers in World War I invoked the principle of self determination, but after the dismantlement of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though its inhabitants spoke German.

This state of affairs has resulted from the fact that the victorious countries that wrote the Charter conferred on themselves rights and privileges which led to the marginalization of the General Assembly and rendered the Security Council, in its present form, inequitable and unbalanced. Those factors made the Organization less democratic and led to abuse of the veto privilege.

And that is where Abe s behavior becomes truly perverse. After all, a Japan that is isolated in Asia will be even more dependent on the US, the wartime victor, which Abe and his nationalist allies hold responsible for the postwar order that they seek to revise.

From December 1851 to March 1852, Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon , a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

But, however sincere his words may sound, reality is moving in the opposite direction, and the ugly verbal exchanges surrounding the act of execution itself will certainly do little to dispel the notion that this was victors justice the victors being not the United States, but the Shi a.