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Terry Glavin: Only cowards object to Iran war on 'international law' grounds
The Islamic regime is explicitly criminal, slaughtering its own people and sponsoring terrorists around the world
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It’s perfectly respectable to demand that the United States and Israel abide by the laws of war in the prosecution of the Americans’ ongoing Operation Epic Fury and the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Roaring Lion, aimed at crippling and disarming the Khomeinist regime in Iran, if that is indeed the point of all this.
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And there’s certainly no shame in wondering how closely the Americans will abide by the Geneva Conventions, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth getting his blood up this way: “No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically-correct wars.”
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But to object to the American-Israeli war against the Iranian regime as a transgression of “international law” is to shroud the vices of moral indifference and cowardice behind a thin veil of juridical etiquette and diplomatic virtue. And there’s a lot of that going around at the moment.
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