“You can’t appease,” says Pompeo, and he is right, but Biden’s handlers are determined to appease Iran and the “Palestinians,” in large part because Trump didn’t, and the “experts” have to reassert that they can handle things better than the “amateur” who showed them up.
“Mike Pompeo: Biden Reprises Obama’s ‘Same Failed Policy’ on Iran,” by Eric Mack, Newsmax, May 16, 2021:
The increased attacks aimed at Israel are a direct result of the Biden administration’s mistake in going “back to the same failed policy” of the Obama administration, according to Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“Now the Hamas terrorists firing into Israel, I can’t believe that the Biden administration is headed back to the same failed policy that they had for eight years with respect to Iran and the larger Middle East,” Pompeo told Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM-N.Y.
Pompeo points to the funding coming from the Islamic Republic of Iran in bolstering “Iranian proxy forces” in an effort to wipe out the Israeli nation.
“The Iranians have made clear they have genocidal intent,” Pompeo told host John Catsimatidis. “They want to wipe Israel off the face of the planet, and they use proxy forces – people like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
“The Israelis must defend themselves.”
Pompeo rejected the “heck of a deal” of the Iranians writing checks to Hamas as it holds American hostages for ransom. Pompeo regrettably, expects President Joe Biden to pay, ostensibly funding Middle East terrorism just months after former President Donald Trump signed multiple peace deals in the region.
“This makes the United States in a very awkward position of using U.S. taxpayer resources to support organizations that are terrorizing Israel,” Pompeo said, noting the relief “money’s fungible” and will wind up in the hands of “corrupt leaders” who will give it to those “organizing terror campaigns.”
“It’s why President [Donald] Trump and our team got it right. We denied the Palestinians any money coming from the United States. We put real pressure on the regime in Iran. We took down their economy in a way that denied them the ability to underwrite exactly these kinds of programs.”
Pompeo rebuked the Obama administration for paying Iran “150 billion all-in” and now the Biden administration entertaining payments for a release of hostages.
“I hope this administration figures out a way a way to do it,” Pompeo said, but paying for hostages is not only ill-advised, it will become a catalyst for more terror and more hostage-taking by Iran.
“You can’t pay money. You can’t appease,” he said. “If you do, if you tell them, ‘hey take an American and we’ll write you a check,’ I can assure you, we’ll be writing more checks and they’ll be taking more Americans.”…
MykeJohn says
If you are a strongman and want to fight/annihilate me why hide behind proxies? Please you are much better than that, flex out your muscle or forever keep your tail in between your legs. This game of :”chicken” must stop for the sake of those whose blood always get caught in your inordinate pleasure to obliterate me without a cause. .
Eric says
Biden is doing exactly the wrong thing in foreign affairs. No. There is no border crisis! Well, maybe. The southern border is a catastrophe and he is incompetent to do what is best for the country he is leading. I disagreed with President Trump on is s us, but he always projected strength of the USA, and unapologetically. Now our President apologizes to Palestinians and the EU and China and Putin laughed at him when asked if Biden was as strong a leader as Trump. We are going to pay mightily for Democrats selecting Biden instead of a younger female against Trump. Democrats proclaimed, before the 2020 campaign, that old white men caused all the world’s ills, and then selected an old white man to be its nominee!!! Now they must be hating their decision. And it’s too late! 2024? Will Biden run again? Can Democrats be that anti-American? Looks to me like it will be Kamala vs Nikki. That gives Israel hope! And it should give the rest of us hope tool
BlackSabbath says
A larger and powerful Israel will be instrumental for the regional security and global stability. After the oil economy collapses, many arab nations such as Saudi Arabia will go bankrupt. Then they will have to sell their land, and hopefully Israel will buy all of it. Palestinians can be shifted into pakistan. They share similar jihadi mindset and they can all work together in construction and other cleaning jobs for the Chinese. It is a win win for everyone.
Wellington says
Pompeo is exactly correct. And what a difference between Pompeo, Trump’s Secretary of State, a tough, informed and shrewd negotiator (he graduated first in his class from West Point), and Biden’s pathetic Secretary of State, Blinken, who had his lunch eaten by the Chinese in that disaster of a meeting in Alaska.
It’s going to be one Munich-type debacle after another with Biden as nominal head of the executive branch of the USA. Much more idiocy and trouble ahead. Count on it.
And again I thank all the dopes who ACTUALLY voted for Biden. Shame on all of you. Idiots.
PRCS says
Likely that every Muslim man, woman, and child voted for him at least once.