On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden during a Senate hearing over his administration’s decision to remove a Marxist terrorist group from the United States’ official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
“This morning, the Biden administration removed the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations,” Cruz said. “The FARC is an organization of Marxist-Leninist narco terrorists. For decades, they have killed, they’ve kidnapped, they’ve extorted Colombians. They have murdered and seized American citizens. They continue to pose an acute threat to Colombian security and to American interest across the region. This is sadly a part of a pattern of Biden foreign policy when it comes to dealing with terrorists.”
“And it is a pattern of appeasement and weakness towards terrorists,” he continued. “It’s a pattern we’ve seen with the Taliban and the absolute disaster in Afghanistan. It’s a pattern we’ve seen with the Houthis in Yemen, where again, the Biden administration lifted sanctions on them, and it’s a pattern that has led to disaster.”
President Biden’s policy of dismantling terrorism sanctions and appeasing terrorists has already led to disasters around the world.
Why does the Biden admin believe delisting the FARC as terrorists will produce anything different? pic.twitter.com/Ur3bTKaJ3Q
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 30, 2021
Just weeks before Biden removed the FARC from the U.S.’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, an Iranian-backed extremist group that Biden also removed from the U.S.’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations launched a missile attack on a mosque and a religions school that killed and injured 29 civilians.
The group, named Ansarallah, had been labelled a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the Trump administration.
“If Ansarallah did not behave like a terrorist organization, we would not designate it as an FTO and SDGT,” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained a statement. “It has led a brutal campaign that has killed many people, continues to destabilize the region, and denies Yemenis a peaceful solution to the conflict in their country. Rather than distance itself from the Iranian regime, it has embraced the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism even more. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has supplied Ansarallah with missiles, drones, and training, allowing the group to target airports and other critical infrastructure.”
