In his news conference Monday, Donald Trump threatened to blow up every bridge and power plant in Iran, action that would be so far-reaching that some experts in military law said it could constitute a war crime.
The issue could turn on whether the power plants were legitimate military targets, whether the attacks were proportional compared with what Iran has done and whether civilian casualties were minimized.
Trump’s threat was so broad it did not seem to account for the harm to civilians, prompting Democrats in Congress, some United Nations officials and scholars in military law to say such strikes would violate international law.
Join the ICC, let international inspectors take a look at US military bases, re-join the climate accords and all the other international treaties Trump backed out of, and pass a constitutional amendment to ratify all that and another one to reform your election system.
Maybe this will be enough to eventually re-gain the trust of other nations, eventually.
We have to reform the electoral system so that people vote instead of land or we’ll just end up right back where we are.