They can. But for a traffic violation? One that has become highly politicized? Boris Johnson has weighed in. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said "Addressing Charles’s remarks, Raab asserted that the UK government is “on the family’s side” and continues to call on US authorities to cooperate." The Government of the UK has been very clear they are biased on this case. There is no way Sacoolas will be treated fairly.
But you weren’t talking about any of those countries. You were talking about China and Iran.
Do you feel China and Iran have higher standards for human rights than the United States has? Do you feel that the United States should recognize China and Iran as its moral exemplars?
If they had waived immunity early on, it wouldn’t have become politicized at all.
And traffic violation? Driving up to a stop sign, without coming to a complete stop, is a traffic violation. What Saccolas did is called vehicular manslaughter, or specifically in the UK “Causing death by dangerous driving”.
None of these countries remotely qualifies as a beacon of human rights. But what we’re talking about in this thread, is abusing the legal system for strategic political ends. And there the US is well in front on.
How many sanctions regimes are China, Iran and Russia spearheading, targeted at their geopolitical rivals. How many whistleblowers and journalists are they attempting to extradite?
So you have decided she is guilty now, without a trial. Exactly why she shouldnt waive immunity. Note that the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have also made that same conclusion. She can get a fair trial. And of course there is the clear and obvious British xenophobia.
No one, not even Sacoolas is denying the facts of the matter: that she was driving a car on the wrong side of the road, thereby causing an accident, which killed a man. But my opinion on it is irrelevant. I’m not on any jury.
Is it your position that people who are pretty obviously guilty shouldn’t face a trail?
Also, you’re moving the goalposts here. You said the US shouldn’t bother waiving immunity over something as petty as a “traffic violation”. I was pointing out that someone died.
Can you clarify what you mean by that. Other than countries do bad stuff - because I’m not arguing they don’t. Just about the hypocrisy.