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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.”
🧵THREAD: 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 (1/6)
— 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…
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