Saturday, 4 January 2020

Pompeo Disappointed With Europeans

The American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has told Fox News, that guardian of journalistic standards with it's fair and balanced views, that he was disappointed with the reaction by Europeans and expected more support following the assassination of the Iranian general, Qassem Suleimani.
While Israel and Saudi Arabia (obviously) have been whooping over America's actions, the overwhelming reaction by European leaders has been to call for restraint and rather poo-pooing the reasoning behind America's drone strike which led to Pompeo saying: 'Frankly, the Europeans haven't been as helpful as I wish that they could be' and that 'The Brits, the French, the Germans need to understand that what we did saved lives in Europe as well'.
With a lack of evidence that Suleimani was planning anything to take lives in Britain, France or Germany hasn't helped the American cause but long gone are the days when European leaders default position was to back up American misadventures in conflicts, especially in the Middle East and especially with a President who has been less than friendly to them and took America out of a working Nuclear deal with Iran.
Tony Blair poodling up to George W Bush in 2001 was the last time a European trusted an American led conflict and even then it was pretty much only Britain who went along with the debacle so it is hardly surprising nobody is trusting them now.
That Pompeo is disappointed is not the surprise, the surprise is that he expected anybody else except the usual suspects to back America in bombing yet another Middle Eastern, oil rich country with no evidence provided as to why they picked now to do it.

4 comments:

Falling on a bruise said...

You are stuck in the Middle East because of George w bush and tony Blair’s terrible war in Iraq and to try and blame anything else is magnificently ignorant.

Falling on a bruise said...

you can't stop reading history when it suits your viewpoints....and then you stop at George W Bush which is the REAL reason you are stuck in the Middle East, or maybe not for long because it appears even Iraq have had enough of you and want you out.

Falling on a bruise said...

Nothing to do with you stopping short of the real reason and not your misleading chunter because you was a bush supporter then and didn’t want any blame attached to him despite all the blame actually being on him?

Falling on a bruise said...

Yep, you drinking and posting would explain a lot. Found it now did you after saying I deleted it? Funny, funny, funny!!