Friday, January 11, 2019

‘Age of self-inflicted American shame is over’: Pompeo delivers blistering anti-Obama speech in Cairo Conservative News Today

‘Age of self-inflicted American shame is over’: Pompeo delivers blistering anti-Obama speech in Cairo Conservative News Today
"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reassured U.S. allies in the Middle East that the current administration is focused on righting the “dire” mistakes made under former President Obama’s leadership.
In remarks made in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, Pompeo issued a scathing rebuke of Obama’s policies in the region while seeking to reassure allies that President Donald Trump is committed to them despite announced plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
Without mentioning his name, Pompeo referred to Obama and cited his 2009 speech in Cairo touting a “new beginning” for relationships between the U.S. and nations in the Arab and Muslim world.
“Remember, it was here, here in this very city, another American stood before you,” he said in a speech at the American University in Cairo.
  • “He told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from ideology. 
  • He told you 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly in the Middle East. 
  • He told you that the United States and the Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.’ 
The results of these misjudgments have been dire,” the top U.S. diplomat said..."
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