Trump promotes chilling pro-war commentary

President Donald Trump is promoting a chilling Alan Dershowitz opinion piece that argues the war in Iran is necessary to stop Iran from obtaining and detonating a nuclear bomb — and to avert the possible deaths of millions of people around the world.

Calling Trump's war a "preventive military action," Dershowitz writes at The Hill that had a similar effort "been taken against the Nazi regime in the 1930s, it might have saved as many as 50 million lives."

"If the military attack against Iran succeeds in preventing it from developing a nuclear arsenal, it too may prevent millions of deaths — we will never know how many," says Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

He warns that if the war is successful the world will never know how many lives it has saved — but if it fails, we will learn the costs "the hard way."

Dershowitz offers a comparison, saying that had Great Britain and France been more proactive in the period before World War II, and destroyed Hitler's Nazi regime, thousands of people would still have died. The nations who engaged in such a preventive war "would have been condemned," rather than "praised for preventing the millions of deaths that ultimately followed, however, since we would never know about them."

He also blames them for not taking such action, saying they could have prevented World War II.

Dershowitz makes the same argument in favor of Trump's and Israel's war against Iran, and asks, aren't the U.S. and Israel "entitled," or "obligated" to "eliminate or at least reduce that risk by preventive military action?"

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