On Sunday, an American citizen was injured in Lebanon by shrapnel from Hezbollah missiles fired at Israel. This tragic incident is another example of the state’s inability to protect U.S. citizens abroad, a trend that has become too common during the Biden administration. Hezbollah is a Shiite political and militant group based in Lebanon notorious for its international terrorist attacks. The war in Gaza reignited the decades-old conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, putting thousands of civilians in danger. Last Wednesday, an Israeli drone strike in Lebanon assassinated a senior Hezbollah military commander, prompting Hezbollah to launch hundreds of rockets and mortars at Israel the following day. Two weeks earlier, on June 27, Canada officially announced contingency evacuation plans to withdraw 45,000 citizens from Lebanon, citing a potential increase in fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. Gen. Wayne Eyre, the leader of Canada’s defense team, said “We can’t do it alone … It will very much be a coalition effort, and we are tightly tied in — very tight — with our allies.” Reports also emerged from defense officials that the U.S. is preparing to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if fighting between Israel and Hezbollah increases. In three short years, the Biden administration has partially or fully evacuated 11 U.S. embassies — the most in U.S. history — in Burma, Chad, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sudan, Niger, and Haiti. For context, former President Barack Obama recorded the second-most embassy evacuations with eight throughout his two terms. Former President Donald Trump ordered three partial evacuations in his one term. Recent evacuations have been notably chaotic. In 2021, 13 American service members were killed during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and two Americans lost their lives while evacuating from Sudan in 2023.  In Afghanistan, Sudan, and most recently in Haiti this March, the U.S. has left thousands of private American citizens behind while airlifting embassy staff out by helicopter. As of 2022, 86,000 Americans live in Lebanon and in 2006, the U.S. evacuated 15,000 people from the country during Israel’s war with Hezbollah. While the official number of casualties is unknown, the conflict has displaced more than 100,000 Lebanese civilians. As tensions rise in Lebanon, and withdrawal becomes increasingly likely, the question remains: will Biden’s record of chaotic evacuations continue, or will this be a turning point?  READ MORE: Hezbollah Sets Its Sights on Cyprus The post Will the US Evacuate Lebanon Next? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.