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(January 10, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on
Thursday slammed the Obama administration’s Mideast policies, which
were outlined in a similar venue almost a decade ago, and touted their
reversal under U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that “America is a
force for good in the Middle East.”
Without mentioning former President Barack Obama by name, he said at
the American University in Cairo: “It was here, in this city, another
American stood before you. He told you that radical Islamist terrorism
does not stem from ideology.”
“He told you that 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly
in the Middle East,” he continued. “He told you that the United States
and the Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.’ ”
Pompeo said that as a result of Obama’s mindset, U.S. policies created a
“dire” situation that allowed for the rise of the Islamic State and for Iran
to spread its influence to countries such as Iraq, Yemen, Syria and
Lebanon, including proxies such as Hezbollah and the Houthis. He said
that this realignment threatened America’s ally, Israel.
“Our penchant—America’s penchant—for wishful thinking led us to look
the other way as Hezbollah, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian
regime, accumulated a massive arsenal of approximately 130,000 rockets
and missiles,” he said. “They stored and positioned these weapons in
Lebanese towns and villages in flagrant violation of international
law. That arsenal is aimed squarely at our ally Israel.”
“The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies
that produced so much needless suffering,” he said.
(January 10, 2019 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on
Thursday slammed the Obama administration’s Mideast policies, which
were outlined in a similar venue almost a decade ago, and touted their
reversal under U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that “America is a
force for good in the Middle East.”
Without mentioning former President Barack Obama by name, he said at
the American University in Cairo: “It was here, in this city, another
American stood before you. He told you that radical Islamist terrorism
does not stem from ideology.”
“He told you that 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly
in the Middle East,” he continued. “He told you that the United States
and the Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.’ ”
Pompeo said that as a result of Obama’s mindset, U.S. policies created a
“dire” situation that allowed for the rise of the Islamic State and for Iran
to spread its influence to countries such as Iraq, Yemen, Syria and
Lebanon, including proxies such as Hezbollah and the Houthis. He said
that this realignment threatened America’s ally, Israel.
“Our penchant—America’s penchant—for wishful thinking led us to look
the other way as Hezbollah, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian
regime, accumulated a massive arsenal of approximately 130,000 rockets
and missiles,” he said. “They stored and positioned these weapons in
Lebanese towns and villages in flagrant violation of international
law. That arsenal is aimed squarely at our ally Israel.”
“The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies
that produced so much needless suffering,” he said.
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