Again with the war criming

 Here's another one for the pile of "I never thought I'd say this", but... I kind of miss the bad actors in our government having enough respect or fear for their constituents that they felt the need to get their stories straight before they started their shenanigans.

This time's example?  Well, we're at war with Iran, now.  We've been blowing their leadership, people, and stuff up constantly for the past week.  Why?  Nobody has given a consistent reason to date.  The closest anybody's come is something along the lines of "they were going to attack us, so we attacked them first."  Try that line of reasoning if you ever find yourself in an assault trial, see how that goes for you.

Of course, once again, this is a war launched on a sovereign nation without Congress having a say in the matter, counter to what the Constitution requires.  No worries though, the baddies in both chambers said it's OK, although they can't seem to come up with a reasonable answer as to why.  I don't know what's worse, the ones who say it's "not really a war" (to which I would say, if the shoe was on the other foot, and DC was getting bombed for a week, would that be a war?), or the ones saying because Trump's commander-in-chief, he gets to do what he wants with the military (you know, like the Constitution explicitly doesn't say).

And what's a new war without new war crimes to go with it?  Take your pick, so far we've at least got us bombing a school (possibly chosen as a target using AI) and sinking a warship, then refusing to rescue survivors.  Just imagine what we get to look forward to if Trump decides air power isn't sufficient to cow Iran into submission and sends in land troops.

Mind you, I'm not terribly sad that Iran is on the receiving end of all of this.  They're a theocracy with decades of "death to America" running through their foundation (however justified some of it might be), and a regular supporter of actions destabilizing international relations.  Heck, if anything, I do like that they're not likely to be sending many more drones to Russia for their Ukraine campaign, and having an EV in a hydro-power state insulates me somewhat from their immediate ability to strike back at us economically via oil prices.

That said, I'd really prefer not to use fighting Iran as an excuse to become more like them.  I'd really like a functioning republic back, without our military leaders talking up a war in terms of hurrying Armageddon along.  Sooner rather than later would be good here - I'm hearing stumbling steps in the direction of making Cuba our next target.  Enough of this sort of thing and, internal governance aside, the other nations of the world are likely to start looking at us as something that needs "dealt with", especially if we're low on supplies from our prior adventures.