Biden Admin Ripped by Foreign Policy Think Tank for Inviting UN Envoy on Racism to Assess US
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s decision to invite United Nations envoys on racism and minority issues to assess the U.S. continued to draw backlash Thursday, more than a week after the announcement.
“Our foreign policy should be predicated on both strength and pride and that American exceptionalism is not a matter of perspective — it’s a matter of history,” said Carrie Filipetti, executive director of the Vandenberg Coalition, a nonprofit national security think tank named after former Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, R-Mich. “We were the first country to really focus on universal values, not those of a particular race or ethnicity or creed. And I think that’s been forgotten by our foreign policy establishment that seeks to apologize for the United States internationally.”
