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<\/a><\/p>\nToday Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, visited Egypt. He held a somewhat delusional speech at the American University in Cairo. It is headlined:<\/span><\/p>\n A Force for Good: America Reinvigorated in the Middle East<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n There is little in the speech that supports the headline. It starts with blustering:<\/span><\/p>\n [B]ecause I\u2019m a military man by training, I\u2019ll be very blunt and direct today: America is a force for good in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n We need to acknowledge that truth, because if we don\u2019t, we make bad choices \u2013 now and in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n Pompeo blames Obama for the trouble the “force of good” caused:<\/span><\/p>\n Remember: It was here, here in this city, that another American stood before you.<\/span><\/p>\n He told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from an ideology. He told you that 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, quote, \u201ca new beginning,\u201d end of quote. The results of these misjudgments have been dire.<\/span><\/p>\n In falsely seeing ourselves as a force for what ails the Middle East, we were timid in asserting ourselves when the times \u2013 and our partners \u2013 demanded it.<\/span> It follows a list of false claims and fake history:<\/span><\/p>\n For those who fret about the use of American power, remember this: America has always been, and always will be, a liberating force, not an occupying power. We\u2019ve never dreamed of domination in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Pompeo ignores the still valid Carter doctrine<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which demands exclusive U.S. domination of the Middle East: “An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”<\/span><\/p>\n When the mission is over, when the job is complete, America leaves. Today in Iraq, at the government\u2019s invitation, we have approximately 5,000 troops where there were once 166,000. We once had tens of thousands of U.S. military stationed \u2013 personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. Now that number is a tiny fraction.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n The good news. The good news is this: The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies that produced so much needless suffering. Now comes the real new beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n