Rising tensions in the Middle East and unrest in South America prompted a callout to the Biden-Harris administration’s failing foreign policy record.
“A President Harris would continue the disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and add fuel to global fires.”
Nearly nine years after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi had cost the lives of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, diplomat Sean Smith, and former U.S. Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan harkened back to the fall of Saigon in 1975.
The first-year failure from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris may have been sold as an airlift accomplishment, but it marked an all too common trend throughout the administration that former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus pointed out as record-breaking.
“The Biden-Harris administration has set a new record for the most embassy evacuations of any presidency in U.S. history, topping Obama’s eight. But it doesn’t stop there: a whopping 16 nations have faced coups or had governments toppled under Biden and Harris,” she began. “The Blinken State Department has partially or fully evacuated 11 U.S. embassies via ordered or authorized departure directives. These include our diplomatic posts in Burma, Chad, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sudan, Niger, and Haiti.”
2⃣ The Blinken State Department have partially or fully evacuated 11 U.S. embassies via ordered or authorized departure directives.
These include our diplomatic posts in Burma, Chad, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sudan, Niger, and Haiti.
— Morgan Ortagus (@MorganOrtagus) August 5, 2024
“In multiple instances, military protection and escorts were necessary to protect U.S. citizens in Haiti, Sudan, and Afghanistan. Despite assurances that we would not see a Saigon-style evacuation in Kabul, that is precisely what we witnessed with horror,” Ortagus went on before listing attempted coups and toppled governments in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Tunisia and Venezuela.
“A President Harris would continue the disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and add fuel to global fires,” she asserted after calling attention to the tenuous situation in Venezuela following the election as the public pushed back on Nicolás Maduro’s cling to power.
6⃣ A President Harris would continue the disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and add fuel to global fires.
— Morgan Ortagus (@MorganOrtagus) August 5, 2024
Earlier this year, House Oversight Committee Chair Kentucky Rep. James Comer (R) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in March as part of an investigation into the embassy closures and evacuations as the committee noted, “These closures and service reductions are leading to a diminished U.S. diplomatic presence abroad. Closures and reduced service status have serious implications for U.S. citizens residing in those countries, as well as foreign nationals who must travel elsewhere to access consular services.”
BREAKING@RepJamesComer is investigating the Biden Administration’s series of embassy closures and partial evacuations around the world.
Since President Biden took office, the State Department has been forced to reduce or suspend operations at several posts across the… pic.twitter.com/rWuC8pH6ow
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) March 26, 2024
Prior to the letter, The Daily Signal reported that Biden’s 11 surpassed his former boss then-President Barack Obama who “presided over the second-most embassy evacuations of any administration with a total of eight over two terms (Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Central African Republic, and South Sudan), or about one a year.”
“Donald Trump presided over three partial evacuations in his four years as president,” the report added by comparison.
Likewise, Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso (R) labeled the Biden-Harris years as “the administration of evacuations,” when he questioned Blinken about the instability during a congressional hearing in May that saw the secretary defending the record as something that happens when Americans have a presence in dangerous parts of the world.
Whether it’s in Burma, Belarus, Sudan, or Haiti, there seems to be a dangerous growing trend of the U.S. in retreat.
It appears the Biden administration has become the “administration of evacuations.” pic.twitter.com/5prIc1IIcf
— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) May 21, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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