Thursday, January 10, 2019

I believe the smart guy, not the ideologue


An article from the Daily Mail was about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizing former President Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East with regard to terrorism by radical Islam adherents.

Pardon me, but I believe the serious consideration of Obama's policy effort over the single- and simple-minded viewpoint of Pompeo.

Pompeo slams Obama in Cairo speech for claiming 'radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from ideology' as he takes new aim at Iran and tries to calm fears about Syria troop pullout

"Former Obama administration officials rejected Pompeo's assertions as petty, political and weak. They said the speech pandered to authoritarian leaders and ignored rights violations that Obama had called out.

'That this administration feels the need, nearly a decade later, to take potshots at an effort to identify common ground between the Arab world and the West speaks not only to the Trump administration's pettiness but also to its lack of a strategic vision for America's role in the region and its abdication of America's values,' National Security Action group, a group of former officials, said in a statement."