AMERICA THE WAR CRIMINAL?

Commentary by Jeff Kamen

Watching the power intoxicated Trump and his alcoholic sock puppet of a secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, boast about their plans for the destruction of Iran’s civilian infrastructure including bridges, and electric power plants—all clear violations of the American law of war, to say nothing of the Geneva conventions—I am haunted by a song from the 1970s about the My Lai massacre perpetrated by US forces against Vietnamese civilians. The title of the song is, “Last train to Nuremberg.”

And on the off chance that Mr. Trump or Mr. Hegseth is reading this post, a historic note for men who perversely make ignorance of history a virtue, Nuremberg Germany was the location of the Nazi War crimes tribunal, held after World War II, where top Nazis were tried, convicted and hanged.

Our glorious president and secretary of war should slow down for just a moment and consider the hard ugly fact that if they willfully destroy civilian infrastructure in Iran, at some point later in their lives, they may find themselves standing before the bar of international justice at The Hague trying to explain why they should not be locked away for their crimes against humanity.

Just imagine being a parent of a child undergoing surgery at a hospital in Tehran, which suddenly loses all electrical power because of the American bombing and your child dies on the operating table as a result. How grateful do you think you would be for America’s intervention in your life?

Now imagine that scenario repeated in one form or another, dozens upon dozens of times if the United States actually commits the massive war crime which Trump gleefully calls bombing Iran back into the Stone Age.

There is a refrain from that old song from the 1970s a chorus that goes like this, “Last train to Nuremberg. All on board!“