President Trump’s threat to destroy an entire civilisation marks a profound moral breach and demands immediate public repudiation and resistance.

I don’t know how better to put this than to say President Donald Trump’s threat to “wipe out a whole civilisation” of Iran puts America into a new immoral universe.

He is directly threatening a war crime. And every one of us is complicit in it, in the sense that this threat comes from the........

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