The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019
Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no one listens to us.
America has been reduced to huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away.
What a disgrace.
The attack on our embassy reminds us of all Trump's Middle East disasters:— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019
1/ Emboldened Iran starts attacking U.S. targets;
2/ Turkey invades Syria;
3/ Saudi Arabia gets away with murder;
4/ Israeli/Palestinian peace slips out of reach.
And that's just the start...
4/ Thousands of Yemeni children continue to die in a U.S. fueled civil war;— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019
5/ Iran restarts their nuclear program;
6/ Saudi Arabia and Qatar break relations, pushing Qatar to Iran
7/ Turkey buys weapons from Russia, breaking NATO's back
8/ Brutal crackdown on political dissent in Egypt ramps up— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019
9/ U.S. abandons Kurds to die in Syria, leaves our bases for Russia
10/ U.S. hold on aid to Lebanon weakens their army, empowers Hezbollah
11/ ISIS begins to regroup in Iraq, breaks out of prisons in Syria
The list keeps going, but the point is this:— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019
The attacks on our embassy in Iraq (and Iraq's unwillingness to defend us) is - on this last day of 2019 - a reminder of how catastrophic this year has been for U.S. interests in every corner of the Middle East.
