Had to admire Biden spokesperson John Kirby's tapdancing when #npr reporter Mary Louise Kelly asked whether cutting off all food, water, and electricity to Gaza wasn't a war crime -- but I don't much admire Kelly's failure to press him for a real answer. In my head I kept hearing what a good BBC bulldog would have done: "but that meets the definition of a war crime, doesn't it? What's the administration's position on war crimes?"

ETA: transcript at https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204950066/nsc-spokesman-john-kirby-says-more-u-s-military-support-is-heading-to-israel