"War has instead done what it usually does: empowered the powerful, rallied the faithful, and allowed an apparatus of repression to present its imperatives in terms of national security," writes Secot. "Trump, of course, is as indifferent to the fate of Iran's civilians as he is ignorant of their circumstances. But there is still one gesture he could make, in service not of the Iranian political opposition per se but of the forgotten cause of human decency, toward a population protected neither by its own regime nor by anyone else. The next time he shoots for the deal of the century, he could add to his list of pie-in-the-sky demands a few that would cost him and the Islamic Republic next to nothing: the release of those arbitrarily detained, an end to political executions, and a respectful burial for the dead."
I have a hard time believing there isn't some way of commemorating what goes on within the Situation Room beyond inked notes on legal pads. What that might be, I've not a clue. I do recall that back in late 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK secretly recorded over 40-hours of discussions related to the "Well, Whatta We Gonna Do Now, Huh?" question. Those tapes are incredibly interesting, and likely reflect his unwillingness to take the fall for any horrors that might emerge from the discussions - the Bay of Pigs disaster would not have been far from his thoughts. (I wouldn't want to ruin the suspense, but Curtis LeMay does not come across well.)