‘This Is the Direct Result of Having Had Some Really Bad Foreign Policy Decisions’: Mollie Hemingway on Red Sea Crisis

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HEMINGWAY: “It’s not just about what needs to be done right now, but really, what led us to this point? And it kind of reminds me of what happened with the border situation where at the end of the Trump Administration, you had a pretty secure border, and on day one, the Biden Administration came in, issued a bunch of executive orders, and really worked to make the border porous. Likewise, we had an incredibly stable situation in the Middle East at the end of the Trump Administration, and pretty quickly within two or three weeks, President Biden said he didn’t want to keep doing the Trump Administration policy of pivoting toward Saudi Arabia instead of Iran and supporting the war against these rebels, these Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. He took them off the terrorist designation list and now we can see that, you know, policies and leadership matter. And this is the direct result of having had some really bad foreign policy decisions and a really bad foreign policy administration.”