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"you can't arrest us all" and the military does too. If the crimes are voluminous enough they know they will all get away with it. Or, at the very least, flooding the zone dilutes the chances of accountability coming for any one criminal. There is safety in numbers.

Look at the boat murders. There was much hue and cry at the blatant illegality of first few. But by now there have been so many, and so many individuals are culpable, -- the whole command structure is tainted through and through , top to bottom -- that prosecution of any one or handful of people is unlikely to impossible.

The same has already happened on Iran. They have bombed so many schools and hospitals and other civilian infrastructure that the bombers (by which I mean decision-makers too not just implementers) are safe from being singled out for consequences.