OPINION_ It’s not just USAID. Marco Rubio needs to reset the State Department

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

It’s not just USAID. Marco Rubio needs to reset the State Department

By Michael Rubin


Former President Joe Biden’s foreign policy team entered office promising the adults were back in charge. What transpired was cringe-worthy incompetence symbolized by the deadly chaos at Kabul International Airport. Biden’s administration was relatively short, but it coincided with Iranian enrichment to near bomb-grade levels, normalization of Hamas as a legitimate entity with which to negotiate, and gratuitous bashing of decadeslong partners such as Saudi Arabia and, to a lesser extent, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

Amos Hochstein, a special envoy who could never receive Senate confirmation, actively sought to appease and empower Hezbollah. Israelis believe that Hochstein shared intelligence with Hezbollah to protect the group against Israeli military strikes. Hochstein, whose background as an energy lobbyist created numerous conflicts of interest, also sought to undermine Israel-Cyprus-Greece cooperation in favor of Turkey.

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken was particularly weak, and his pronouncements were often so naive to rival Frank Kellogg, perhaps the worst secretary of state the United States has ever had. Decades as a staffer to Biden made Blinken a follower rather than a leader. He allowed himself to be gratuitously humiliated by foreign officials such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who kept him waiting, downgraded his receptions, and removed American flags. Far from bringing peace, Blinken’s moral equivalence greenlighted genocide.

President Donald Trump is not afraid to break diplomatic china, nor is Secretary of State Marco Rubio beholden to bureaucratic groupthink. He is willing to recognize that too many diplomats put the feelings of host countries ahead of broader U.S. national interests.

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