Liz Cheney Breaks With GOP To Praise Biden Policy Accomplishment

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In a public statement shared this week, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) expressed support for a sudden U.S. military operation that targeted the leader of the ISIS terror group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who detonated a bomb as U.S. forces approached. No U.S. casualties were reported in association with the effort, although the lives of members of the terrorist leader’s family were claimed in the blast. President Joe Biden himself said that “thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more,” explaining that “knowing that terrorist had chosen to surround himself with families, including children, we made a choice to pursue a Special Forces raid at a much greater risk to our own people rather than targeting him with an airstrike.” Meanwhile, Cheney pointedly commented as follows:

‘President Biden and the men and women of the US military deserve our gratitude for their decisive action to remove ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi from the battlefield.’

Cheney has proven herself to be one of the few Republicans in Congress who are willing to go against the party line — and Trump — in major areas. In this context, prominent Republicans have repeatedly characterized the Biden administration as fundamentally weak on national security-related issues, although the facts don’t exactly support this assessment. For one, although the tragedy of a bomb attack that killed U.S. personnel unfolded in conjunction to the operation, the Biden administration carried out a military withdrawal from Afghanistan while seeing through the evacuation of over 120,000 people from the country — no small feat. Elsewhere, the Biden administration has prepared to confront potentially imminent Russian aggression in Europe with military assets as needed. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) who’ve complained about Biden’s team supposedly kowtowing to destructive foreign interests don’t seem to have the full breadth of the facts on their side.

In particular, Hawley insisted in response to criticism from the White House of his push to drop U.S. support for Ukraine eventually joining NATO that Biden’s team “has coddled Russia from Day One and now brought Europe to the brink of war – giving the Russians Nord Stream 2, refusing Ukraine military aid last year, and conducting a disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan that emboldened our enemies worldwide.” It’s Trump who pushed for Putin to be brought back into the G7 group of world leaders, from which he’d been pushed out specifically because of Russian aggression towards Ukraine — effectively “coddling” Putin. The Trump administration also held up military aid to Ukraine amid the then-president’s attempts to get Ukrainian authorities to investigate the Bidens.

As previously reported on this site: Nord Stream 2 is a Russian gas pipeline that’s been under development for awhile and, if put into use, would transport gas from Russia to German consumers. Amid concerns like whether it would be appropriate to provide Russian authorities with leverage over European energy supplies, the Trump administration imposed sanctions in 2019 that were meant to stifle the project. Eventually, the Biden administration lifted those sanctions, although not without caveats. German authorities pledged that “[should] Russia attempt to use energy as a weapon or commit further aggressive acts against Ukraine, Germany will take action at the national level and press for effective measures at the European level, including sanctions, to limit Russian export capabilities to Europe in the energy sector, including gas.” Even now, considering the fact that the pipeline is not actually in operation, Hawley’s assertion that Biden “gave” it to the Russians is false.



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