Pompeo's pandemic performance ensures his place among the worst secretaries of state ever
Lets recall how the U.S. secretary of state has historically behaved at a time of grave international crisis: circling the globe (at least telephonically); formulating a coherent multilateral response; and lining up nations behind it starting with Americas closest allies.
Now, consider how Mike Pompeo spent his time last week, as cases of covid-19 soared in the United States and numerous other countries. He kicked off Monday by indulging in a pointless war of words with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, whom he accused of lying about the countrys grave coronavirus outbreak.
Then he flew off to Afghanistan, where, after a brief and failed attempt to persuade President Ashraf Ghani and rival Abdullah Abdullah to put aside their deep-seated differences, thereby facilitating the pre-election troop withdrawal President Trump wants, he resorted to the administrations favorite foreign policy tool: abruptly cutting off aid.
On Wednesday, Pompeo had an opportunity to lead when foreign ministers of the Group of Seven convened by telephone. James A. Baker III, George Shultz or Madeleine Albright would have emerged with a clear statement of purpose by the worlds leading democracies perhaps a commitment to aiding the poor nations and refugees that face devastation by the new disease.
Instead, Pompeo blocked the G-7 from issuing any communique after the other ministers sensibly refused to go along with his petty insistence that it refer to the Wuhan virus. The message he sent was clear: Scoring a rhetorical point against Beijing is more important to this U.S. administration than forging a consensus with Britain, France, Germany and other close allies.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Poopyhead.
GOPricklepants
(34 posts)I've been calling him this for awhile now and oh how he is living up to that solid turd moniker. Along with Mother's Water Boy, the two don't have a shriveled up ball between them. Just complete dick. The Con must have an extravagant collection of nutsacks by now. Maybe he freezes them and uses them to ice down his Diet Cokes on the daily.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)For 12 - 18 hours at a time
Zorro
(15,740 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the ambassadors, besides many other things, was and still is how horrible this asshole truly is. His negotiation skills are the worst and he as well as shithole's administration are incompetence jerkoffs - all his effed up cronies.
Bright point - Dr. Fauci.