Ben Shapiro: “Anybody who is telling you that it's a war crime to bomb a bridge, well, no, it depends on the bridge and it depends on the military purpose of bombing the bridge”
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From the April 6, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): On Thursday, the United States blew up the B-1 Bridge in Iran. The B-1 Bridge is a very, very large structure in Iran. We blew a hole in it. Again, one of the reasons that you blow up bridges is because military material is moved via bridge.
And as we're going to discuss more widely, there's been a lot of talk about, quote, unquote, war crimes. War crimes meaning the targeting of dual use resources. Dual use means that it can be used for military purposes and also for nonmilitary purposes. So if you target an electrical grid and that electrical grid is used by the military and it's also used by civilians, then is that necessarily a quote, unquote war crime? The answer is no. It is not necessarily a war crime. It depends on the proportionality of what you are doing. What is the objective you are seeking to achieve? How effective is the taking down of an electrical grid in actually achieving that military end and how many people have to be damaged?
It turns out that the laws of war have a lot of shades of gray to them. And so anybody who is telling you that it's a war crime to bomb a bridge, well, no, it depends on the bridge and it depends on the military purpose of bombing the bridge because every bridge is, of course, an object, and the object can be used for many reasons.