Posted on 05/23/2019 11:07:30 PM PDT by knighthawk
Mike Pompeo doesn’t reckon himself a media critic, but the secretary of state can’t help but grin at the hysterical coverage that attends the Trump administration’s every move on the world stage. The latest example came last week, when reporters and liberal foreign-policy types managed to convince themselves that Team Trump was prepping a full-scale invasion of Iran.
“White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War” screamed a New York Times headline.
“When you see that headline, it’s flashy, but it doesn’t begin to reflect the depth of the work that’s been done,” Pompeo says as we sit down for an interview at the plush Palace Hotel in Midtown.
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It’s hard to conjure the memory of a recent president who has been more restrained in the use of presidential power when it comes to matters of foreign policy.
Not that the libtard “mind” can grasp a concept that requires such high level thinking.
He adds: “Every Western nation understands that the information infrastructure has to have Western values embedded in it: rule of law, transparency, clarity, rules. If the system isn’t that, if the system is set up to violate privacy and be lawless, which is what a non-Western system would look like, I think they see that it’s bad for every country.”
Uh ,huh, sure.
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