Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
I often feel we are becoming so desensitized to this hell world that we accepted “acknowledge that they did a boo boo” as opposed to being “tried for aiding war crimes and atrocities” and it fucking sucks. All those narratives about fighting evil, and toppling cruel empires, in reality they get away with it and award themselves medals.