By Evaristo Lara
12 Oct 2023, 2:03 PM EDT
After Israel was attacked by the Hamas terrorist group over the past weekendCory Mills, representative of Florida, flew to the Middle East to help rescue a group of 32 Americans unable to leave the area.
During an interview with the television network Fox News, The 43-year-old Republican, who served in Iraq as a soldier, mentioned that he led his compatriots to safety, since they had been trapped in unsafe areas of the country, which prevented them from moving to a point where they could be rescued.
“I came in and felt very grateful to be able to help (by the way, for the second time, I’ll just add) the Biden administration, which has not done its job,” he said.
The Florida politician’s accusation arises from the fact that In 2021, he also went to Afghanistan to remove trapped people from that country after US army troops received orders from Joe Biden to leave that nation. leaving some compatriots stranded.
“This is the second time I have done the work of the Biden administration because they did not have a plan.”he declared.
In this sense, Cory Mills attacked the current president of the nation whom he describes as incapable of developing an adequate foreign policy strategy during his time at the head of the federal administration.
“I believe it is time for the American people to put an end to the disastrous administration that continues to fail in its plan and strategy to be able to remove the Americans or take into account the foreign policy (situation) that they really create and that actually leads to these types of incidents,” he stressed.
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, who traveled to Tel Aviv to reiterate the US government’s unconditional support for Israel, announced that So far, 25 compatriots have died since Hamas began bombing Israeli territory.
“Tragically the number of innocent lives lost to Hamas’s atrocious acts continues to rise… Among the dead we now know that there are at least 25 American citizens,” the official stated.
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