Pete Ricketts: “I have always said that keeping people safe is one of the most fundamental roles the government plays: keeping people…”

“I have always said that keeping people safe is one of the most fundamental roles the government plays: keeping people safe. For 4 years, the Biden-Harris administration has failed at this most fundamental mandate the government has. About a month ago, the American people delivered a message that they were no longer going to stand for a government that was failing to keep them safe. The Biden-Harris appeasement-first foreign policy strategy has made America weaker and less safe. The world that the Biden administration is leaving is a more dangerous place today than it was 4 years ago when they took over. Weakness and appeasement have defined the current administration, starting with their disastrous pullout of Afghanistan. That pullout in Afghanistan cost American lives, including a Nebraskan, Marine Cpl Daegan Page. We also left behind Americans, unbelievably, and we also left behind our Afghan security partners--abandoned them--in addition to the billions of dollars of American equipment, through this poorly executed debacle. Since then, we have seen foreign policy fumbles and flip-flops that have left our allies questioning our commitment and, worse yet, has the bad guys--Russia, China, Iran, North Korea--questioning our resolve. The most disturbing example of this is Iran. Under the Trump administration, they knew that the way to deal with a dictator--like we had in Ali Khamenei in Iran--is through strength and imposing sanctions.…”