Josh Gay

Iran is emboldened.

And now our president, supposed to be the most powerful man in the world, thinks that you can declare victory just by saying so.

When it is extremely clear that we lost this war pure and simple.

And there's got to be accountability for it.

Retired Brigadier General Steve Anderson, he's got an idea about what accountability over the atrocities of the Iran war might look like.

I'm Josh Gay from The Ring of Fire filling in for David Pakman.

You can catch me at youtube.com slash The Ring of Fire seven days a week.

And this Brigadier General went on CNN this week and said something that people like me and people like David have been screaming for weeks now.

He said, we're going to need Nuremberg-style trials for the people who have followed Trump's illegal orders during this war.

He said that he was old enough to remember the original Nuremberg trials and how we held the Germans accountable after the atrocities they committed during World War II.

And he says he would hate to think five or ten years from now

We might be doing the same thing with American soldiers and leaders that made decisions directed by the President of the United States that are illegal.

And this guy's got an impressive resume.

Three decades of service.

And he is comparing potential American war crimes to the atrocities of World War II.

I mean, he called Donald Trump what he is.

He said he was an absolute terrible commander in chief who stuck his fist in the middle of a hornet's nest and doesn't know how to get it out.

That is powerful imagery and it's accurate.

It is what has happened in Iran.

And this brigadier general said that Trump has not set clear definable objectives that the military can truly execute.