Jake Sullivan's foreign policy blunders resurface after hyping up Middle East peace days before Hamas attacks
Jake Sullivan has faced calls from Republicans to resign in recent years
By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published October 12, 2023 4:00am EDT
A top adviser to President Biden is facing criticism over a comment he made shortly before the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that the Middle East was the calmest it has been in decades, bringing to the forefront other controversial foreign policy decisions the Biden adviser has been involved with over the last decade.
"What we said is want to depressurize, de-escalate, and ultimately integrate the Middle East region," Sullivan said at "The Atlantic Festival" on September 29.
"The war in Yemen is in its 19th month of truce, for now the Iranian attacks against U.S. forces have stopped, our presence in Iraq is stable, I emphasize for now because all of that can change and the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades," he said.
Eight days later, Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed at least 1,200 Israelis causing many conservatives to blast Sullivan’s comments on social media.
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