Ryan Goodman: What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats. This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.

What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats. This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.