So this happened on my drive into work this morning:
His previous declarations certainly evoked concerns about the possibility of war crimes being committed. But sending them “back to the stone ages” could be dismissed as hyperbole. While destroying all roads and power plants would be a crime against humanity, any given target could potentially be justified. But this is rather clearly a threat of mass murder of the civilian population.
It should also be noted that this is the same President who vowed to come to the aid of these very same people if their government cracked down violently on protestors. Now, he’s threatening to kill them at a scale that makes the regime look moderate.
If an actual Go order is given along these lines, a whole lot of people are going to have to make some very hard decisions. I do not envy them.
