Updated at 11:17 a.m. ET
“America is a force for good in the Middle East,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday in Cairo, in an expansive speech in which the top U.S. diplomat repudiated the Obama administration’s Middle East policies and accused it of making crucial errors that worsened a string of crises in the region.
“The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies that produced so much needless suffering,” Pompeo said.
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