Donald Trump surrounds himself with only the best people. People like Rudy 9/11 Giuliani, tasked on the Sunday shows with defending Trump's repeated assertion that when invading nations like Iraq, we should "take the oil" in the process.
The Geneva Conventions prohibit countries from seizing others' property, even in war -- the exact justification the United States used during its 1990 invasion of Iraq, after Iraq had seized Kuwait's oil.
But in an interview with ABC's on "This Week," George Stephanopoulos pressed the former New York City mayor over the legality of his claim, with Giuliani saying: "Of course it's legal. It's a war."
"Until the war is over, anything's legal," he said, laughing. "If we're going to have lost that many people in Iraq, we should have something to say about how that oil is distributed."
Ah, the ol' it's not a war crime if we do it argument. It was trotted out to defend the torture of prisoners; of course it would resurface in service of Donald Trump's idea to pillage whatever we've conquered and turn a little profit on the venture.
These are the people who Donald Trump would put in charge of things. It seems remarkable to think that there could be an administration worse at its job than the Bush White House routinely was, but here we are.