{"id":1929567,"date":"2023-05-12T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-draws-bipartisan-fire-for-not-anticipating-sudan-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T06:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:59:52","slug":"biden-administration-draws-bipartisan-fire-for-not-anticipating-sudan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-draws-bipartisan-fire-for-not-anticipating-sudan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden criticized for not foreseeing Sudan crisis by both parties."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-draws-bipartisan-fire-for-not-anticipating-sudan-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929567&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rival Generals Battle for Supremacy in Sudan<\/h2>\n<h3>U.S. State Department Caught Flatfooted<\/h3>\n<p>Republican and Democratic senators alleged during a May 10 hearing on \u201coptions for an effective policy response\u201d to the unfolding catastrophe in Sudan that the only people surprised that rival generals were marshaling forces to battle for supremacy were the U.S. State Department and its Africa desk. As a result, confusion and delay in organizing evacuations of U.S. citizens occurred when fighting exploded on April 15 in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. <\/p>\n<p>The chaotic departures of more than 700 Americans on British, French, German, and Saudi aircraft in the days after the violence erupted and the April 28\u201329 departure of another 600 U.S. citizens in overland convoys to Egypt prompted several lawmakers to reference another recent evacuation many say the Biden administration bungled.<\/p>\n<h3>Senators Express Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me that the Biden administration was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-laughs-off-potential-retirement-i-want-to-make-sure-were-really-out\/\" title=\"Fauci Laughs Off Potential Retirement: \u2018I Want To Make Sure We\u2019re Really Out\u2019\">caught flatfooted<\/a>, similar to the way it was in Afghanistan,\u201d Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) said during the two-hour hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter seeing what we saw in Afghanistan, I think the American public is shocked,\u201d said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. \u201cMy office is hearing a great deal of concern about American citizens who are left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>State Department Responds<\/h3>\n<p>But Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator Sarah Charles told the committee there is no comparison between the situation that unfolded in Kabul and what is happening in Khartoum. The only Americans they are aware of \u201cleft behind\u201d are those who want to remain in the embattled country, Nuland said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, we evacuated 2,000 people\u2014the majority of whom are our citizens and their family members, along with\u201d more than 70 embassy staff, Nuland said. \u201cSo, whether U.S. citizens left aboard a Saudi, Canadian, French, British, or any other flagged carrier, we helped coordinate every transport that included known U.S. citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Sanctions Questioned<\/h3>\n<p>Among those disputed policies was not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unsure-if-russia-fits-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-designation\/\" title=\"Biden \u201cUnsure\u201d if Russia Fits \u201cState Sponsor of Terrorism\u201d Designation\">imposing personal sanctions<\/a> on the warring generals who had worked together in April 2019 to end the 30-year reign of dictator Omar al-Bashir in a popular revolt, before al-Burhan then deposed a transition government in October 2021. The late 2021 coup set the stage for what proved to be 18 months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-continues-pushing-iran-deal-as-they-continue-escalating-plots-on-u-s-soil\/\" title=\"Biden Continues Pushing Iran Deal as They Continue Escalating Plots on U.S. Soil\">fruitless negotiations<\/a> among the army, the RSF, the United States, the United Nations, and the African Union, as well as regional nations such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that preceded the eruption of gunfire on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>The administration \u201cfell short of the challenge\u201d and \u201crefused to call a coup a coup\u201d in 2021 by not sanctioning the generals, Menendez said. It was \u201clegitimizing and entrenching those with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) agreed, adding that the State Department should have sanctioned both generals in the span between October 2021 and April 2023, especially Hemedti, whom he called \u201ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-draws-bipartisan-fire-for-not-anticipating-sudan-crisis\/\" title=\"Biden criticized for not foreseeing Sudan crisis by both parties.\">war criminal\u201d guilty<\/a> of atrocities in Darfur two decades ago and was allowed \u201cto build his power base in Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>State Department Responds<\/h3>\n<p>Nuland said the focus is now on sustaining the \u201csixth or seventh\u201d ceasefire and getting aid shipments idling in the Port of Sudan delivered to the 10 million Sudanese in danger of starving while talks between al-Burhan and Hemedti, which began May 6 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, continue. While it\u2019s a good plan, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) said, it should have been an actual plan instead of a reaction to \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan that was predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State Department \u201cshould have done more to warn our citizens and position our diplomats\u201d to quickly arrange negotiations, he said. \u201cThis was a predictable scenario that we all saw unfolding. We\u2019ve seen this movie before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only people surprised that rival generals\u00a0in Sudan were marshaling forces to battle for supremacy were the U.S. State Department and its Africa desk, Republican and Democratic senators alleged during a May 10 hearing on \u201coptions for an effective policy response\u201d to the unfolding catastrophe. As a result, the senators said, when fighting exploded on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1929568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3620,6170,6719,26494,11342,24524],"class_list":["post-1929567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-biden","tag-crisis","tag-criticized","tag-foreseeing","tag-parties","tag-sudan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}