Violence-promoting Mike Pompeo rises to head the Department of State

© 2018 Peter Free

 

13 March 2018

 

 

In furtherance of the United States' warmongering foreign policy

 

From the Washington Post:

 

 

“I am proud to nominate the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, to be our new Secretary of State,” [President] Trump said.

 

“Mike graduated first in his class at West Point, served with distinction in the U.S. Army, and graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School. He went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives with a proven record of working across the aisle.”

 

© 2018 Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker, Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo, Washington Post (13 March 2018)

 

 

President Trump has selected someone with no diplomatic qualifications (whatsoever) — and lacking even the mildest of tendencies in that regard — to become Secretary of State.

 

 

Pompeo is the chest-thumping American Kansas prancer

 

Who, according to his Wikipedia blurb:

 

 

Favors regime change in North Korea — because (unrealistically, given China's position):

 

 

"It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula, to get those weapons off of that, but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today."

 

 

Wants to roll back the Iran nuke deal — because (inaccurately):

 

 

Iran is "the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism."

 

 

Would delight in crushing Palestine — because (one-sidedly):

 

 

"Ongoing attacks by the Palestinians serve only to distance the prospect of peace."

 

 

Favors taking geopolitically insane aim at the Russian Federation — because (evidently projecting US and NATO sins onto someone else):

 

 

Russia "has reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nearly nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS."

 

 

Thought (contrary to all evidence) that President Obama had invited Russia into Syria.

 

 

Thinks (to use that word so loosely that it loses all meaning) that global warming is bogus — because:

 

 

"There are scientists who think lots of different things about climate change. There's some who think we're warming, there's some who think we're cooling, there's some who think that the last 16 years have shown a pretty stable climate environment."

 

 

And, in aid of furthering all these goals, favors spying the last drop of privacy out of all of us:

 

 

"Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata . . . combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection."

 

 

Il Duce would be proud of you, Mike.

 

 

Score another political win for the American Military Industrial Complex

 

Where starting and winlessly waging strategically nonsensical wars are our daily fodder.

 

 

The moral? — Do not look to the United States for geopolitical sense, implemented standards of freedom, or a peace policy of any kind

 

The rest of y'all better start thinking about how you are going to survive a world that is:

 

 

led by a narcissist toddler

 

who is eagerly facilitated by a bunch of (mostly) testosterone-poisoned ignoramuses and diplomatically clueless American dopes.

 

 

Comparative strategic giants, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, are going to have their hands full. History is more often made by violent nitwits than competents. That vale of tears trait gives the boorishly vacuous and violence-infatuated US leadership an edge.

 

Of course, making history is frequently different than surviving it.