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Trump's Iran threats alarm war crimes experts
Donald Trump risks turning America into a "rogue state," a former U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues warned Wednesday after the president threatened to bomb power stations and desalination plants in Iran.
Stephen J. Rapp, who served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues from 2009 to 2015, said he was disturbed by Trump's threats to Iran if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz and agree to end the war the United States and Israel launched a month ago.
"It makes us a rogue state," said Rapp, who served as chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2001 to 2007 and the chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2009. He and two other experts in international law who spoke to NBC News said Trump's threats alone could represent a possible war crime.
Trump's Iran threats alarm war crimes experts
“It makes us a rogue state,” Stephen J. Rapp, who was U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues from 2009 to 2015, told NBC News.www.nbcnews.com
To be honest, even someone as cynical as me didn't think trump would choose to commit more war crimes and extend the war. Or at least threaten to commit them. Especially since Iran has telegraphed its response. To retaliate by bombing the energy infrastructure of its neighbor countries. Which is why WTI crude is up almost 10% to nearly $110 a barrel. That and a continued blockade of the Strait.
Was he concerned a daily source of entertainment would end?
Inside Trump's daily video montage briefing on the Iran war
Inside Trump's daily video montage briefing on the Iran war
The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.
At a time like this we would all do well to remember congressional R's voted to allow trump the latitude to do this when then voted against the Iran War Powers resolution.
Republican-led House declines to constrain Trump's war in Iran, just as Senate did
Republican-led House declines to constrain Trump's war in Iran, just as Senate did
Most Democrats and a few Republicans voted for war powers resolutions that would have required President Donald Trump to get congressional approval for further military action.
Maybe they didn't think he would be this recklessly stupid either.
He has no respect for the UN, wants to pull the US out of NATO, has the US withdrawn from the Paris accords, withdrew from the JCPOA, violated international law, and imposed indefensible tariffs on nearly every country on the planet. We were already a rogue nation before he did this. Choosing to extend his war of choice only makes it worse.
I lacked enough imagination to envision where we are at and I shudder at what else there is beyond imagination that will materialize.
