It’s clear that President Joe Biden aspired to be a foreign policy president. “Diplomacy is back” became his mantra upon winning the election. While the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan may have shaped the foreign policy legacy of his first year and the Ukraine war his second, with negligence and cynicism, Biden’s foreign policy team now presides over a broader and more corrosive problem: a growing sense among the world’s rogues that genocide works.

Consider the Uyghurs: China today subjects them to the most industrial genocide of any group since Nazi Germany decided upon its “Final Solution” for Europe’s Jews. Just as then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ignored evidence and rationalized inaction, today, Biden’s environmental czar John Kerry has argued that setting a positive atmosphere to talk with Beijing on environmental concerns must trump engagement with regard to the eradication of a people, culture, and civilization. “Life is full of tough choices,” Kerry explained.