How much the USA cares about their own citizens reflects the degree allies can count on it's support. The level the USA takes care of their own directly equates to the degree allies know it is committed to them.
Former Secretary Clinton was very dedicated and successful in taking care of Americans abroad. She should speak out on the campaign trail if she believes it could help those with misinterpreted actions abroad.
Left to right: Ali Rezaian, brother of Washington Post journalist Jason
Rezaian, Nagameh Abedini, wife of Saeed Abedini, Sarah Hekmati, sister
of Amir Hekmati, and Daniel Levinson, son of Robert Levinson, listen
during a hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in
Washington on Tuesday (AFP photo)
June 2, 2015
By AP
Former Secretary Clinton was very dedicated and successful in taking care of Americans abroad. She should speak out on the campaign trail if she believes it could help those with misinterpreted actions abroad.
Left to right: Ali Rezaian, brother of Washington Post journalist Jason
Rezaian, Nagameh Abedini, wife of Saeed Abedini, Sarah Hekmati, sister
of Amir Hekmati, and Daniel Levinson, son of Robert Levinson, listen
during a hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in
Washington on Tuesday (AFP photo)June 2, 2015
By AP
WASHINGTON — Relatives of four Americans (click here) held in Iran called on the Obama administration Tuesday to do more to
press for their release during negotiations with Tehran on a deal to
roll back its nuclear programme.
Lawmakers
from both parties said that if Tehran doesn't release them immediately,
they would not trust the Iranian government to honour terms of any deal
international negotiators are rushing to finalise before the end of the
month.
"Call me a sceptic,"
said Republican Rep. Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, which held a hearing on the issue.
Daniel
Levinson — son of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has been gone
for more than 3,000 days — said his father has missed the births of
three grandchildren, two weddings and numerous high school and college
graduations.
"There is not a
day that goes by when we don't think of him, how much he must be
suffering and what we can do next to bring him home," he said.
