Cruz And Trump’s ISIS Plans Sound A Lot Like War Crimes

[RDM]

Cruz And Trump’s ISIS Plans Sound A Lot Like War Crimes

Carpet-bombing with no regard for civilian casualties. Murdering the possibly-innocent families of terrorists just to make a point. The line between official U.S. policy and action movie fantasy was unfortunately blurred during the Republican debate on Tuesday night, when Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the frontrunners for the nomination—Trump with 33 percent in the polls, Cruz with 16—tried to out-macho one another on foreign policy.
The result was both candidates doubling down on strategies that involve war crimes.

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[RonPaulMall]

Same thing happened in WWII. Perpetrators of that are considered "The Greatest Generation" by the MSM. This is not a fruitful line of attack- at least not in the USA.

 

[phill4paul]

Their vitriol is making us much safer. Just using these hard line terms should scare ISIS into submission.

 

[notsure]

Cruz and Trump sound no better than the terrorist. Their sharp rhetoric make the US sound like terrorists,,and I wouldn't be surprised if this helped isis's recruitment efforts.

 

[notsure]

Their vitriol is making us much safer. Just using these hard line terms should scare ISIS into submission.

Not likely. From everything I've heard about these terrorists, they want us to fight them and they want draw the US into a long battle on their homeland. This kind of rhetoric only plays into their hand.

 

[CaptUSA]

To be fair...

If a real war were to be declared, then overwhelming force should be expected. These guys are idiots for talking about the methods of war (especially since they're not discussion the method of entering a war), but we should all know what a war entails during the debate about whether we should start one.

 

[dannno]

No, no, you don't understand, Cruz wants to do TARGETED carpet bombing!!!

Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.

 

[alucard13mm]

Depends. If you win, no war crime. If you lose, war crime.

Honestly, if we are fighting a just war, i expect it to be over asap and to use whatever conventional means to achieve.

Lets see.. go all out and carpet bomb creates 10,000 dead in one month, but wins the war in a month.

Or this tactic of jerking each other off while waiting for enemies to shoot you before you can shoot back or taking 40min to get permission to do an airstrike. Careful rules of engagement, but you still kill 100 civilians a month by accident and the war drags on for 10 years (120months x 100 deaths), which creates as much casualties as carpet bombing.

Not only is the death rate the same, being careful means living in war time for 10 years as a civilian... wondering when the next ied will kill, or collateral in drone strike or being used as a human shield. I sure as hell want the war over as soon as possible.

 

[jkob]

Cruz and Trump don't want no-fly-zone and start WWIII with Russia

that's a warcrime

starving 500,000 Iraqi children death thru our sanctions is a war crime

 

[klamath]

Trumps plan to flat out target isis families IS a direct violation of the Geneva convention and is a straight up war crime.

 

[specsaregood]

Trumps plan to flat out target isis families IS a direct violation of the Geneva convention and is a straight up war crime.

So is bombing hospitals and shit, right? nobody got time for Geneva conventions no more.

 

[William Tell]

No, no, you don't understand, Cruz wants to do TARGETED carpet bombing!!!

Cruz is full of crap, and he knows it.

 

[Jan2017]

No, no, you don't understand, Cruz wants to do TARGETED carpet bombing!!!

Will the sand glow for a 10 mile radius if that target gets a megaton hydrogen bomb ?
Cruz - "We'll find out."

From CNN pre-debate soundbites -

Trump - "We can’t afford to be so nice folks."

Rand - "People are saying if we just had more surveillance. Hogwash."

 

[klamath]

So is bombing hospitals and shit, right? nobody got time for Geneva conventions no more.

True, however directly condoned and ordered in the open, by the CiC is a little bit beyond. You can't say it was an accident afterwards.
But you are right, nobody, especially Trump supporters give a shit about Rule of law and the constitution.

 

[EBounding]

To be fair...

If a real war were to be declared, then overwhelming force should be expected. These guys are idiots for talking about the methods of war (especially since they're not discussion the method of entering a war), but we should all know what a war entails during the debate about whether we should start one.

Exactly. A CiC should be willing to sacrifice thousands of men in order to win the war. But that's exactly why we should be reluctant to go to war. War isn't some game to project power or to get "tuff". It's literally brutal with permanent consequences.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Obama kills people fairly indiscriminately with drones on a daily basis, with no Declaration of War.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

So is bombing hospitals and shit, right? nobody got time for Geneva conventions no more.

Or Declarations of War. As long as it's Obama and Hitlary doing it, it's all good.

 

[TheTexan]

I'm pretty sure it's only a war crime if you lose

 

[Brian4Liberty]

We don't expect Trump to even pay lip service to the rule of law. Did Cruz ever mention a Declaration of War last night? If he did, I never heard it.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I'm pretty sure it's only a war crime if you lose

The puny nation of ISIL doesn't worry about any repercussions for "war crimes" from an "international court". Why would Trump care?