Schoolgirls Not Included

Although mere war crimes may not carry much weight with the Trumpster and his head-tribble, a certain residual significance does yet cling to the occasional legal technicality. His Imperial Majesty's Loyal Opposition are up in arms over the fiddling of official casualty figures for the Persian Crusade, which the administration is counting as two separate crusades for the purposes of evading the sixty-day limit on international aggression without the approval of Congress. Depending on whether one counts from before or after the sort-of-ceasefire, the casualties worth bothering about stand at either eighteen or fourteen dead and either six hundred-odd or four hundred-odd wounded. As a result, at least one among His Imperial Majesty's Loyal Opposition has uncompromisingly proclaimed that the Department of War is breaking the law and somebody ought to do something about it.