War crime hysteria smears plenty of presidents except for one
The left, and some on the right, went crazy over President Donald Trump’s post this week.He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure.He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”Trump may have used sloppy nouns.But he obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist, and won’t come back, once the power plants and transportation systems central to the regime were cut off.Why do we know that?Because unlike most prior American wars, Trump has never targeted dual-use infrastructure — not in bombing ISIS, not in removing the Venezuelan thug Nicolas Maduro, not in the 2025 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and not in the present war — with the exception of a key Iranian bridge central to the regime’s efforts to move missile assets around and spare them from bombing.Ever since Trump announced that “help is on the way” to the Iranian people, the entire aim of the five-week war has been to selectively target the command and control of the regime and its military assets.The goal was to diminish its threats abroad, while weakening and humiliating the mullahcracy at home — so that soon the Iranian people might at last be able to overthrow the odious theocracy.Trump’s critics know all that.But they see political advantage in tagging Trump as a Strangelovian madman, no different from the Nazi criminals in the docket at Nuremberg.A few less unhinged argue his rhetoric nevertheless comes across as unpresidential.Perhaps.But it may be no accident that his Gen.Curtis LeMay-like bluster apparently applied pressure on the Iranians to reopen negotiations.
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