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Free Press Opinion: By all means, let the war crimes trials begin!

AP File Photo/Jacquelyn Martin / Where to start with the war crimes? Former President Barack Obama talks with then-President-elect Donald Trump as Melania Trump reads the funeral program before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025.
AP File Photo/Jacquelyn Martin / Where to start with the war crimes? Former President Barack Obama talks with then-President-elect Donald Trump as Melania Trump reads the funeral program before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. AP File Photo/Jacquelyn Martin / Where to start with the war crimes? Former President Barack Obama talks with then-President-elect Donald Trump as Melania Trump reads the funeral program before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025.

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump’s recent tweet.

He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Trump may have used sloppy nouns.

But he obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist and won’t come back, once its power plants and transportation systems central to the regime were cut off.

Why do we know that?