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Over the past, there has been widespread agreement across party lines that closing American embassies in the wake of terrorist threats is a wise decision.

Count Louie Gohmert among the dissenters.

The outspoken Republican congressman from Tyler, guest-hosting on Sean Hannity’s radio program, criticized how the Obama administration is handling threats to American embassies.

Gohmert discussed the issue with a caller who declared the embassy closures as a “colossal mistake” that shows that America is weak. The caller also stated that “we’ve got a reluctant warrior in the White House and the whole world knows it.”

The Texas lawmaker agreed with the caller and went on to suggest that closing down the embassies makes the United States look cowardly.

“We don’t want any more people to die, but it brings us back to the question that Hillary Clinton asked, what difference does it make at this point?” asked Gohmert. “The difference it makes is, that if you will bother to find out exactly what went wrong, why you didn’t have security where you needed it, where you need security to shore up, what you can do to make sure that doesn’t happen again, you don’t have to close your embassies like a bunch of cowards that go running away.”

Lexi Smith