Trump’s Iran Rhetoric Is Not a War Crime

His threats are overheated and politically unhelpful, but his domestic opponents are skewing the facts in response.

Andy McCarthy said it best: The president’s “disgraceful rhetoric” around this war is condemnable. His public statements have been anything but reassuring to the majority of Americans who are apprehensive about the course the war has taken. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” the president wrote, by way of example, Tuesday morning. On the domestic front, remarks like these only make the president’s life (as well as that of his fellow Republicans) more difficult.

And yet, at the risk of lapsing into a tendency to which Trump’s biggest fans are prone by grafting logic onto what …