Donald Trump’s top military adviser is refusing to offer a legal justification for the president’s threatened attack against Iran’s water desalinization plants while insisting that the U.S. would only “strike lawful targets” after a careful review of multiple considerations.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine did not directly answer the question when asked specifically about the legality of such a raid on the plants that provide drinking water to most of Iran’s 90 million residents. Instead, he told reporters at a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. “joint force” — the combination of the America’s Army, Navy, Air and Space Forces and Marine Corps — is “the most professional force in the world.”
