Riskiert Trump, Amerika in einen Schurkenstaat zu verwandeln?

„The United States supplied weaponry used in Gaza and has failed to call out the Emirates, but it still — inconsistently, halfheartedly — professed to uphold the laws of war. Now in Iran, I fear we may be retreating even further from the principles we once proclaimed, loosening the shackles that civilized nations place on themselves to protect our shared humanity,“ writes the Times Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof.

He adds:

>The attack on Iran appeared to violate international law, said Oona Hathaway, a Yale legal scholar and the president-elect of the American Society of International Law, because it neither had United Nations approval nor was necessary for immediate self-defense. Beyond that, while it is too early to be definitive, some of the American and Israeli strikes raise troubling questions about possible war crimes.

Read the [full column, for free, ](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/opinion/iran-war-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.tA_1.dwKchRIxfbhc&smid=re-nytopinion)even without a Times subscription.

Ahh the old argument that we should wait for them to be imminent threat before stopping them. It was very good of America to let Pearl Harbor happen vs trying to prevent the Japanese build up in the Pacific.

No mention of the Iranian regimes recent blood letting of it’s own people. 30,000-40,000 dead in a few days