Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities
Why accountability must be bipartisan.
More than 42,000 women, children and elderly were killed in the first 16 months of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, according to a study just published by the Lancet medical journal. An "Apocalyptic Wasteland" where human remains littered the streets, is how staff at USAID described the Palestinian territory just 90 days after the war began.
Charles R. Davis
Everyone knew the response to the Oct. 7 terror attack would be deadly. Even so, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exceeded the worst expectations: not just disproportionate — the Israeli campaign was genocidal.
That didn't stop the United States of America, under the leadership of a liberal Democrat, from providing all the means necessary to carry out the killing. That should bother anyone who believes liberalism to be preferable to fascism: As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued in Munich, "hypocrisies are vulnerabilities." How can one be a credible opponent of Donald Trump's criminality after excusing his predecessor's?
As we at The Redoubt maintain, if the next administration is serious about accountability, then — and wishes to avoid charges of cynical partisanship — it must pursue justice without regard to party affiliation.
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