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Because the Nuremberg trials started after the war formally ended. We'd have gladly killed any of the defendents given the chance in a gunfight. Same goes for Milosevic, had he been killed during the Kosovo Campaign, we'd have been just as happy (eventually*).
We give the bad guys 2 options: Surrender or Die. Fortunately, not too many of them surrender.
*As unlikely as that was considering who was in office at the time, and his penchant for putting genocidal dictators and terrorists on some kind of pedistal.
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