Get Tough, America!
DIPLOMACY WITHOUT THE CREDIBLE THREAT OF FORCE INVITES CONTEMPT, SAYS FORMER AMBASSADOR RIC GRENELL.
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ebuking the biden administration’s “total collapse of diplomacy,” former acting Direc-
tor of National Intelligence Ric Grenell says America needs a new era of “muscular diplomacy.” “D.C. newsrooms won’t say
it, but American diplomats have failed,” Grenell told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Flori- da, in February. “President Biden told us that
he was going to bring diplomacy back; instead, it’s on its back. “We desperately need new,
creative, visionary diplomacy: muscular diplomacy to secure meaningful peace when a con- fl ict arises.” Grenell noted “our allies are
hungrier than ever for a strong America,” and “diplomacy done right, however, is the op- posite of war. “Muscular diplomacy means
tough, savvy, and sober diplo- mats who advocate tirelessly for our national interests,” he said. “For decades, U.S. foreign
policy has been based on un- enforceable global accords. It’s tried to force democracy in re- gions and countries that didn’t want it and couldn’t handle it.” Grenell contrasted the ac-
tions of the current adminis- tration with what he argued were the more muscular poli- cies of former President Don- ald Trump, saying, “diplomacy without the credible threat of force invites contempt. “Europe has seen its borders
rewritten under Joe Biden, and in 2014 when Barack Obama was president, and yet the left continues to mock the Ameri- can First diplomatic strategy,” Grenell lamented, noting the Biden State Department “failed to avoid war” because it should have used sanctions before war, not after.
“We must be honest about
what went wrong, and we must commit to muscular diplomacy for the future,” he continued. The Biden administration’s
failed withdrawal in Afghani- stan had all the same resources and fi nal objective as the Trump administration, but it lacked the same strength, according to Grenell, who added our “cred- ibility, our deterrence and our national honor crumbled.” Grenell, the former U.S. am-
bassador to Germany, hailed his “calling out the Germans for their hypocrisy,” and said Biden’s biggest mistake was freeing the Russians for the Nord Stream 2 “pipeline of in- fl uence.” “Joe Biden and Democratic
senators dropped the sanctions on Russia’s pipeline, creating the precise moment Putin saw American weakness,” Grenell said.
“Right now we have political
appointees at the State Depart- ment who are inept,” he added. “There’s no other way to say it. “We have witnessed an ap-
palling waste of diplomatic capital these past four weeks as the Biden team hyped a bloody war, shifting U.S. troops around Europe, stoking paranoia in the West, destroying the Ukrainian economy, and utterly failing to deter Vladimir Putin.”
Ric Grenell is a Newsmax TV contributor, and he served as U.S. ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020.
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