On Tuesday morning, the president of the United States wrote on Truth Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."

He's talking about Iran. A country of 93 million people. More than Germany. More than France. More than California, Texas, Florida, and New York combined.

This isn't a joke. It isn't negotiation. It isn't the art of the deal. Amnesty International called it "incitement to war crimes." The Iranian ambassador to the UN called it "potentially genocide." The former executive director of Human Rights Watch called it "collective punishment" — a Fourth Geneva Convention violation. Former U.S. military lawyers say threatening civilian infrastructure on this scale is itself a war crime under international humanitarian law. Multiple members of Co ...