Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech Thursday at the American University in Cairo struck out at the Obama administration’s policies in the Middle East.
“In falsely seeing ourselves as a force for what ails the Middle East, we were timid about asserting ourselves when the times – and our partners – demanded it,” Pompeo said.
He didn’t refer to Obama by name. But he called out a speech by “another American” in the same city in 2009 – an address that was a hallmark of the early years of the Obama presidency.
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