A what-if Plan: What if Iran didn't take the bait & went to the UN and The Hague?

[UTUSN]

And get those places to condemn SHITLER as a war criminal or whatever and for there to be a peacekeeping coalition formed to be stationed in symbolic numbers at all the places SHITLER might bomb.

Him, already named as Impeached, then condemned further. I suppose his Deplorables will rally further for him, but the *shame* on him might break him, think how his mother said, "What kind of son have I raised?"

We and everybody else have been taking his bait for three years, what if somebody stopped it.

[empedocles]

1. Appeal? That is not the raw meat the political ezxtremes demand.

Would be a nice touch on trump though.

[bitterross]

2. Shame? He'd have to have a conscience first.

He'd have to have some sort of morality and self-awareness.

Trump is a sociopath. He feels no shame.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Unfortunately, the US is not bound by the ICC.

[avebury]

7. Other countries could have then considered

sanctions against the US.

[mwooldri]

8. If the ICC were to try him and found him guilty...

... international travel would get difficult. Unless that 3rd country were to turn a blind eye and let him out back home, just as South Africa did to the leader of Sudan a while back.

[Silent3]

4. It's a shame that that kind of temperance is unlikely to be in Iran's character...

...because it would be a classy move.

And Trump would likely have to pay a price for how bad he's been at maintaining and nurturing relationships with our normal allies.

[UTUSN]

5. Granted, but the alternative is being bombed out?

[Silent3]

6. Leaders often don't make the most rational choices in situations like this

While Trump is an unfortunate outlier in the history of the government of the US for being so erratic and short-sighted, I don't trust the leaders of Iran's theocratic government to be any better behaved.

[Voltaire2]

9. UN Security Council won't.

The UN General Assembly might but is irrelevant, and we don’t care what the ICC does.

[UTUSN]

10. Is my grasping at straws showing?!1

[Voltaire2]

12. Yeah.

The situation is fucked. The more we learn the more fucked up it is. Now it appears we invited him to Baghdad to discuss the situation. No way Iran is just going to chill out.

[Hekate]

11. In the past 100+ years, what has Europe/the US done that would make the Middle East trust us?

Just a question.