When the President threatens to commit a genocide

Some of you might have missed that the President threatened Iran with genocide.

So to be clear, he said: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Not a regime; a civilization. This is a meaningful threat on the entire population of a nation.

If he follows through, it's a crime against humanity.

If he doesn't follow through, it's a threat of genocide.

This isn't a situation we can both-sides. He's threatened to end an entire nation. There's no "people are entitled to their opinion" here. If you think this is okay, you think threatening to commit genocide is something a President should be able to do.

Some people will describe criticism of this as TDS or some knee-jerk "orange man bad". It's not those things. It's incredibly serious.

It feels surreal: like something from a movie or a TV show. That effect can be paralyzing. But it's real.

Using our voices is important at times like these. Even when it's professionally inconvenient. Even if we might lose friends when we do so.

If he is allowed to continue along this path, bad things will likely happen. Even if he doesn't execute on his threat this time, he may another time. Other nations may feel they need to defend themselves from potential violence.

What would it look like to bring the world back to a peaceful order? How can we ensure that the United States does not call for genocide again and cannot follow through with such an obscene threat?