I wouldn't even tag it under "go to bed without supper!"
You want atrocities and war crimes? Have someone estimate the number of young Americans' needless deaths and mutilations due to asinine "rules of engagement." I'm guessing 40%, if someone has an studied and informed estimate, I'm all ears.
A war with "humane" rules of engagement is not morally or rationally justified, and not worth fighting."
From one of myriad related historical comments, about Germany and WW2...
The trip took thirty minutes. We drove east through suburbs. They looked like a lot of West German places. There were vast tracts of pale honey buildings built back in the fifties. The new neighborhoods ran west to east in random curving shapes, following the routes the bombers had followed. No nation ever lost a war the way Germany lost. Like everyone, I had seen the pictures taken in 1945.
Defeat was not a big enough word. Armageddon would be better.
The whole country had been smashed to powdered rubble by a juggernaut. The evidence would be there for all time, written in the architecture. And under the architecture.
Every time the phone company dug a trench for a cable, they found skulls and bones and teacups and shells and rusted out Panzerfausts.
Every time ground was broken for a new foundation, a priest was standing by before the steam shovels took their first bite.
I was born in Berlin, surrounded by Americans, surrounded by whole square miles of patched-up devastation.
They started it, we used to say.
Many people have said that the last war America was allowed to truly fight and win, was WWII. I think the last 70-odd years of our history with military conflicts completely bears that out.
I don’t know how long it will take for the lessons learned over that time, to finally sink in to the hardened heads of the political class who run our wars, but in the meantime, they’ve done nothing but get tens of thousands of good Americans killed, by tying their hands in battle.
It continues even now.