Michael Waltz actually said...

I don't think the United States in many ways across our whole of society has fully woken up to what Xi has explicitly stated he wants to go.

It really is a perfect storm in many ways for them to make that essentially a fait accompli for the United States.

I would submit to my colleagues that is a war criminal and we need to be very careful about very loosely throwing around that term.

We need to be very careful in equating mistakes, perhaps bad judgment calls, with a war crime.