The New York Times Insists on Support for War Crimes—When They Are “Our” War Crimes
By Bob Avakian
The New York Times has criticized the way Donald Trump has waged the war against Iran—while, at the same time, the “Times” insists that it is wrong to hope that Trump fails in this war, because that would supposedly make things worse! Let’s get this straight: The launching of this unprovoked and unjust war against Iran, by the U.S., as well as Israel, is—according to international law, and by any meaningful definition—a major war crime. (Among other outrages, the U.S. and Israel launched this war against Iran while Iran was engaged in negotiations with the U.S., and “neutral forces” involved in these negotiations had made clear that progress was being made). In the waging of this war, the U.S. and Israel have committed further war crimes on a massive scale, with the deliberate bombing of civilian targets (and, on top of this, Trump has committed yet another, depraved war crime with clearly genocidal implications: threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization).
