Customary law is not formal law. Trump flies above the bedrock. The thing to realize is that US could have destroyed 10-100x more civilian infrastructure. Inst

Customary law is not formal law. Trump flies above the bedrock. The thing to realize is that US could have destroyed 10-100x more civilian infrastructure. Instead it only gave Iran a small taste of what it's capable of. In undertaking this action, just as with the nukes in WWII, the gambit is to end the war quickly, not to prolong it. I am not saying whether the gambit will work, but why is prolonging war not illegal? Spatial whataboutism is perfectly fair in war. A tit-for-tat strategy forms a highly stabilizing bedrock.