In an interview on The Kelly File Thursday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said the U.S. closing the embassy in Yemen was “humiliating.”
“When your reduced to saying that the Germans had to close their embassy, then you know exactly how far we’ve fallen,” Krauthammer said. “Germany isn’t exactly a power in the Middle East anymore.”
The State Department announced late Tuesday that the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was closed and evacuated after the country was taken over by Shiite rebels last month. The U.S. embassy had already been operating with severely reduced staff for several weeks.
Only hours later, the United Kingdom followed suit and France took the same steps toward the same end.
“On a tactical level, just sort of explaining the evacuation it’s humiliating,” Krauthammer said. “And this is after Benghazi. It isn’t as if we didn’t know what was going to happen.”
Earlier on the program, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted the policy of the Obama administration involving “the Arab Spring from December 2010 forward has failed, and at a minimum is in the midst of failing,” as host Megyn Kelly put it.
“As it relates to Libya, you’re right,” Psaki admitted. “The president and others in the administration have spoken about what more we could have and should have done and as have other countries.”
