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.
A leftist news source I read suggested a progressive foreign policy of dismantling overseas military bases instead of just trying to pretend your way back to the Obama era, and that’s probably the best idea I’ve heard of.
Imagine how many fewer war toys would be lying around for Republicans to play with if we started winding down their forward positions overseas.