Wilful misunderstanding of Obama’s Middle East objectives

Why did US secretary of state Mike Pompeo travel to the heart of the Arab world to deliver a speech largely intended for partisan political consumption at home, asks David Eckels

Wilful misunderstanding of Obama’s Middle East objectives

Why did US secretary of state Mike Pompeo travel to the heart of the Arab world to deliver a speech largely intended for partisan political consumption at home, asks David Eckels

US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s much-marketed speech in Cairo was rich in straw man fallacies while short on substantive specifics, a speech bursting with contradictions that reminded me just how hard it must be to speak for a president who has, at best, an incoherent foreign policy.

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