Respected historian, analyst and commentator Victor Davis Hanson is calling for the investigations of war crimes to begin.
Online, he was responding to wild claims by those with Trump Derangement Syndrome who have been triggered of late by President Donald Trump’s warning that if Iran doesn’t agree to work on a peace deal, the military coalition hitting Iran’s military targets could expand its reach.
That would be to include “dual-use infrastructure,” which he has not heretofore targeted in “bombing ISIS” or removing “Venezuelan thug Nicolas Maduro,” or the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and more.
“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 regime’s command and control and military assets,” Hanson explained. “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.”
While all of Trump’s critics knew that, the “Democrat Borg” has been declaring Trump “a savage maniac.” And they are blasting him as TACO, for Trump Always Chickens out.
Actually, he had threatened a major offensive against Iran should a ceasefire not be reached, and it was.
The common denominator in the attacks on Trump have been an “overarching, deranged hatred.”
“But since the Left has called for investigations of war crimes, by all means let them begin,” Hanson said.
He explained the long list of possible defendants from American leadership:
In World War II, we leveled a dozen Japanese cities because the Tokyo junta had outsourced the assembly of weapons to urban neighborhood workshops. We joined the British in leveling Dresden by targeting German transportation. Perhaps the Left will now remove the iconic names of Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman from our buildings and monuments? …
How about the Lyndon Johnson/Richard Nixon bombing of North Vietnam? Their war machine annihilated most of its civilian infrastructure in efforts to force the communists to negotiate. The 42-day bombing campaign in the First Gulf War targeted power stations, roads, bridges, and dual-use government buildings.
Should we go back and Trotskyize its strategic architects—George H. W. Bush and Gen. Colin Powell?
Sen. Mark Kelly is one of Trump’s fiercest critics in pressing the war crimes charge. Perhaps he, too, should be post facto investigated by the International Criminal Court, given the fact that, in 1991, he was a pilot in an air force that frequently hit bridges and other dual-use targets?
How about the “noble” NATO effort in Serbia? According to the logic of current critics, there must be lots of war criminals still to be found who were involved in that merciless 1999 bombing of Belgrade. Bill Clinton’s gambit wrecked all the bridges on the Danube and often left more than a million civilians without power.
Will we indict Barack Obama for ordering more than 500 targeted predator assassination hits on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border without Congressional authorization, strikes that ended up killing four American citizens?
Perhaps we can reinvestigate Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice, the architects of the 2011 “unlawful” and Congressionally “unauthorized” seven-month bombing of a mostly inert Libya.
And why not reexamine Obama? He snubbed the 60–90 War Powers Act window, which required him to obtain congressional authority to continue that mindless devastation. The Libyan wreckage included civilian ships, port facilities, TV buildings, telecommunications, and government offices—and left the country an utter mess that continues 15 years later.
The evidence of the attacks, Hanson explain, had revealed leftists as not “just incoherent but crazed, since it appears that many despise Trump more than they do the murderous Iranian regime.”
