The downed Air Force officer had more than a normal reason to be afraid of capture.

[Mac1958]

Until trump there were unwritten standards of behavior that were largely adhered to by every prez before him. There were lapses but they were typically met with a strong reaction to them by Congress, the public, or both.

It's hard to imagine a more disturbing violation of expectations for said behavior than a profane, Easter morning screed threatening to commit war crimes. Simultaneously shattering a number of taboo's. Met with subservient acquiescence by the minions.

The risk we run as a country is losing the ability to react in shocked disbelief out of shear fatigue from the chaos.

The speed with which our standards completely collapsed have been shocking.

The nihilisitic celebrations of cruelty, indignity, destruction.

I think it indicates how fragile those standards were to begin with.

 

[eagle1462010]

The speed with which our standards completely collapsed have been shocking.

The nihilisitic celebrations of cruelty, indignity, destruction.

I think it indicates how fragile those standards were to begin with.

Awe. Your bros in Iran dying.

 

[martybegan]

The speed with which our standards completely collapsed have been shocking.

The nihilisitic celebrations of cruelty, indignity, destruction.

I think it indicates how fragile those standards were to begin with.

When one side (yours) thinks the other sides ideas shouldn't exist, any whining about standards is crocodile tears.

The Right thinks the left's ideas are retarded, the left thinks the right's ideas shouldn't exist.

Seattle mayor blames 'far-right rally' after left-wing activists attacked Christian prayer service

 

[berg80]

The nihilisitic celebrations of cruelty, indignity, destruction.

It's Lord of the Flies in adult form.

 

[Independent thinker]

When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality: The Slippery Slope to Total War on Iran​

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” posted President Donald Trump on Easter Sunday. In case one thought that was an impulsive utterance, it’s notable that the president in apparently prepared remarks a few days earlier said, “If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.”

Such rhetorical statements – if followed through – would amount to the most serious war crimes – and thus the president’s statements place servicemembers in a profoundly challenging situation. As former uniformed military lawyers who advised targeting operations, we know the presidents’ words run counter to decades of legal training of military personnel and risk placing our warfighters on a path of no return.

Iranian power plants and other critical civilian infrastructure are protected from attacks by the law of war the United States helped craft after World War II. Such an object can lose its protection only if it is used for military purposes by the enemy and its destruction “offers a definite military advantage.” Even then, such an object can be attacked only if, after a case-by-case rigorous analysis, the “concrete and direct military advantage anticipated” outweighs the civilian suffering that is expected to result. (Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I art. 52, art. 57; DOD Law of War Manual, § 5.6, § 5.12).

Despite those well-settled legal parameters, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to obliterate such infrastructure without regard to the law’s high demands. His comments are blatant expressions that he is willing to turn the United States into a rogue State like Iran and Russia, one that rejects the fundamental legal restraints that protect innocent non-combatants like children, and the Iranian civilian population itself.

War Crimes Rhetoric to Battlefield Reality: Slippery Slope to Total War on Iran

Former JAGs warn that threats to strike Iran’s power plants would violate the law of war and endanger U.S. service members’ legal and moral obligations.

www.justsecurity.org

He's a soldier for a country that has committed and recently threatened to commit war crimes. A country that bombed a school house (I believe accidentally) after a pronouncement by its Sec. of War that the rules of engagement have taken a secondary role to maximum lethality. A message that is easy to interpret as giving purpose to the deaths of those young schoolgirls.

Which is not to paint our enemies as innocent victims. Iran has committed atrocities of its own. Even against its own people.

But if you are a prisoner of war you are entitled to humane treatment. And you don't want your country to have given those holding you a pretense to mistreat you. John McCain understood that. As do the families of those who have served. Perhaps that's why our CIC has shown so little regard for the "losers" in uniform.

I hope the men and women in uniform heed the words of Mark Kelly and those who joined him to remind military personnel they can ignore illegal orders. Despite the regime's attempts to silence them.

Woke up early in your red barn in Moscow today?

 

[Gumshoe]

The Republicans in Congress are such unbelievable cowards. They know Trump is mentally ill, but they are just going to let him continue this insane war.

It's time for the 25th Amendment to get rid of this lunatic.

 

[Gumshoe]

The problem is half of Trump’s Cabinet are lunatics. The White House is functionally an insane asylum.

A LUNATIC like you shouldn't be allowed to be walking in the Streets alone, and without a AID to help you.

 

[Gumshoe]

A LUNATIC like you shouldn't be allowed to be walking in the Streets alone, and without a AID to help you.

 

[berg80]

A LUNATIC like you shouldn't be allowed to be walking in the Streets alone, and without a AID to help you.

What's with the odd use of upper case letters? Don, is that you?

 

[jknowgood]

So you are confirming that you are a terrorist just like Trump?

If Trump bombs these power plants and bridges and kills thousands of innocent civilians, then that makes Trump every bit of as much of a terrorist as the Iranian Ayatollahs....even worse.

Bridge's used to transport military equipment. Legal wartime target. Power plants, used for military. Legal wartime targets. Now move along.