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发帖数: 734 | 1 这个作者认为川普和蓬皮奥的外交政策造成了伊朗即将拥核，对TG的新疆、香港、台湾
、南海束手无策。说聚聚和盟友关系不好还值得讨论一下，这么说估计番薯都要骂娘了。
Goodbye, Mike Pompeo
By JOSHUA KEATING
NOV 07, 20201:53 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/goodbye-mike-pompeo.html
Pompeo has done damage to U.S. credibility abroad that will take years to
repair. Yuri Gripas/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Pompeo has been a rare survivor amid the chaos and turnover on Trump’s
national security team, lasting the whole term, first as CIA director and
then as secretary of state. But he was never exactly a Trumpist. There’s
little to suggest he shares the president’s skepticism of “endless wars,”
his fondness for Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, or his suspicion of U.S.
allies. His defining issue has been a campaign of regime change in Iran,
something Trump has seemed fairly indifferent about. But he also isn’t
among the hawks who clashed with the president and found themselves out of a
job, like James Mattis, H.R. McMaster, or John Bolton.
Throughout it all, Pompeo hovered somewhere in between, an ideologue who
realized that as long as he flattered the boss in private and defended him
in public, he’d have leeway to pursue his own agenda. He’s failed even by
the terms of that agenda: Iran is now closer to developing a nuclear bomb
than it was when he entered Foggy Bottom; U.S. saber-rattling has not
deterred China from crushing democracy in Hong Kong, imprisoning Uighurs in
Xinjiang, threatening Taiwan, or expanding its control of the South China
Sea.
He’s been the worst sort of hypocrite, somehow both defensive and
overconfident. This continued up through the past week, when he was tweeting
out grave statements of concern about election meddling in Tanzania and
Belarus even as Trump was attempting to undermine the democratic process in
the U.S. with baseless claims of voter fraud.
Pompeo’s rhetoric straddled the line between the self-righteous bombast of
the George W. Bush administration and the craven cynicism of the Trump years
. By embedding foreign policy even deeper within the U.S. culture wars, he
has done damage to U.S. credibility abroad that will take years to repair.
I wrote last month that there are “actually two Trump administration
foreign policies, one led by Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and
the other by Trump himself, and they only sometimes align.” The country
will be better off without either of them |
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