Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks on the Trump administration's Iran policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, U.S. May 21, 2018. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters
Politico: Pompeo, in Cairo speech, to rebuke Obama’s Mideast vision
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading out on what may prove his toughest trip yet, a weeklong swing through the Middle East in which he will give a major speech about America’s role in the region and privately reassure Arab allies that the U.S. remains committed to them.
In his speech, to be given in Cairo, Pompeo plans to repudiate the Middle East vision of former President Barack Obama, who famously delivered an address to the broader Muslim world while in Egypt in 2009. Pompeo will slam Obama’s engagement with Iran, sources told POLITICO, while asserting that President Donald Trump has the region’s best interests at heart.
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Update: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: US withdrawal from Syria doesn't change mission to destroy ISIS and stop Iran's influence in the Mideast (CNBC).
WNU Editor: What a difference ten years makes. President Obama's speech in Cairo titled a "New Beginning" is here .... President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt (June 4, 2009). President Bush's biggest foreign policy disaster was believing that war and nation building was possible in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. President Obama's foreign policy disaster was believing that the desire for liberal and democratic reforms in the Middle East would eventually transform the region into something better, and the U.S. should help to promote it. Sadly ... upon reflecting on what Presidents Bush and Obama said .... nothing even remotely close to that has happened. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Cairo speech is one that is suppose to reset the U.S. position into something else, and I can only hope that it will not be a repeat of the same.
10 comments:
There was to be a middle east peace plan by one of the DNAs of the president. Where is that after all these months? Popeo to denounce Obama but not to offer a replacement plan?
We have NO foreign policy. We have 3 or more people announcing this or that and then changing a week later. Full chaos!
Any new grand strategy has to be based on realism.
That would have to take into account the USA isn't the world's policemen anymore. That our oil and gas reserves are sufficient to enable an independent energy policy from the Middle East.
That the USA will be withdrawing from Middle East combat rather than deepening its role.
Other nations more dependent upon freedom of navigation on the seas will have to look to ensure their supplies thru choke points in the Middle East.
That the US does have vital interests in the region, specifically Israel, its peace partners and states committed to opposing Iranian state terrorism.
The USA will maintain significant combat capability in the region should her vital interests be challenged.
Anon
your list sounds like the current policy!
we are not the policemen
We will withdraw
but we have vital interests
and we will maintain combat capability
Is it in dear or are you fumbling with it now?
Anon@12:32. Reading wasn't your thing in school.
Getting out of Afghanistan, Syria and eventually Iraq is new policy.
Telling the world to police the ME on your own if that's were your oil is from is also new policy.
Being energy independent from the ME is also a new fact that needs to be stated.
Maintaining combat capability in the region is old policy but needs to be stated.
dear anon
snippy comment tells us about you
we are NOT getting out of Syria
We still do not know what ME policy is
how can we be combat capable if we are getting out?
Lapides,
You are being obvious again.
Let's be honest. Obama was an extremely weak president regarding foreign policy. From the disastrous red line to the failed relations with Israel and Russia to the horrible Iran deal and with the failed pivot to Asia that gave us the militarisation of the south china sea..looking back I'm puzzled how I voted for him twice... well I know how.. back then I didn't understand the Power and how tiled the Media is torwards the left ... I ate it all up and back then thought he's the greatest. 8 years later and I realise this guy has accomplished nothing. Why do some people get such an easy ride and even a Nobel peace price? Remember that? While others are smeared as the next Hitler and if you like him you're a deplorable. All I cab say is this: I don't know what Pompeo will say, but I do know for a fact that the very same day, CNN, Msnbc etc will have the same narrative. That he is stupid. That he is foolish and that he's a Hitler enabler. If you don't see this coming, I don't know where you've been the last couple of years. Our population and the future of our nation is held hostage by the coordinated narrative of the leftist media - which covers 90% airtime. Unless we break this unholy alliance between media and politicians, we'll be ruled by TV anchors. You know, the intellectual heavy weights of the morning show and Don lemon and cooper. Drunk gay sex in a bar while doing uppers? Basic education. Cheering on a porn star for extorting the president and trying to impeach him somehow? yes, please! Having people form mobs and intimidate you for disagreeing with your point of view? of course! :) all is well as long as you don't vote republican or don't support Pompeo. Whatever you do, just obey. Heil CNN, HEIL !
dumb as my hermit crab
Fabulous comeback!
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