Whether or not that’s what Old Joe meant, that is exactly what Biden’s handlers are getting us into.
“Biden Claims ‘America Is Back’ Then Pompeo Shreds Him with Just 1 Mic-Dropping Line,” by Kipp Jones, Western Journal, February 5, 2021:
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shredded President Joe Biden on Fox News on Thursday in response to Biden’s claim earlier that day that “America is back.”
Biden, delivering remarks at the U.S. State Department on Thursday during his first foreign policy address, portrayed the country as having faltered somehow during the four years of President Donald Trump’s leadership. Biden, in an (at-times) cringeworthy address filled with verbal miscues and his trademark problems with basic syntax, droned on for what felt like an eternity.
One line, however, stood out among others.
“And so — so is the message I want the world to hear today: America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy,” Biden said in his address, alongside current Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Appearing on Fox News with former Republican congressman and new “Primetime” host Trey Gowdy, Pompeo — who held Blinken’s post from April of 2018 until Biden’s inauguration in January — hit the new president with a memorable one-liner that makes you wonder if Pompeo himself might not be planning a quiet retirement while Democrats eat at the Trump administration’s legacy like termites under a discarded railroad tie.
“Does he mean back to when ISIS controlled a caliphate in Syria that was the size of Britain? I hope not,” Pompeo said….
“President Trump and our team took that down,” Pompeo said of the now-former Islamic State caliphate.
The former head of the State Department continued hitting Biden over his posturing teleprompter speech. He nailed the Democrat over the mess left behind by the Obama administration, which Pompeo and Trump put a lot of effort into cleaning up.
“When he says ‘back,’ when America is back, does he mean back to letting China walk all over us, destroying millions of jobs in places like Kansas and South Carolina, that we know so well?” Pompeo said. “I hope that’s not what he means by back.
“[Biden] talked about allies. When he said go back, does he mean back to dissing allies and friends like Israel and treating the terrorists in Iran like friends by giving them $150 billion in pallets of cash?
“I don’t think the American people can afford to go back to eight more years of Barack Obama’s foreign policy. I hope they’ll move forward with a foreign policy look much more like our America first foreign policy,” Pompeo said….
Infidel says
Back is pretty simple: it means that the foreign policy swamp gets back to the swanky parties that they’d hold w/ foreign diplomats and lobbyists, and do their bidding in return for the latter bankrolling them
Pompeo was good, but still too much of a globalist, like his world tours trying to seduce countries to get off China’s belt/road scams. We can’t save the whole world: we need to prioritize regions that are in our strategic interests. That would be the Americas as well as the Indo-Pacific region. Let the EU figure out (whether and) how to deal w/ China, since they have members who’re happy to participate
Fred van de Bunt says
Not a single Chinese made problems here in Europe, where I live.
But those guys that follow their holy Saudi leaders do a lot. And I do not differentiate between people that read the Quran. If they be from ISIS or be the holy Saudi clan, since I am no racist, they are all the same to me.
But they make all of them problems here in Europe!
That said, Pompeo likes to kiss the asses of those Saudi’s. He is free to do. I have no problems with his sexual habits. But do not ask me to follow him.
I look better for guys have no problems with, like the Chinese.
mortimer says
OK, Fred, how do you know the Chinese aren’t going to rig European elections next? Their influence will get to Europe eventually.
juleonly says
Pompeo would make an excellent President. (with Tulsi Gabbard as vice) Not many realized how down to earth, but far seeing he is. There is no one i admire more.We have to hear more from him. I wish he could tell us what to do.
gregbeetham says
You’ve got to be kidding. Due to the secrecy and cover-up by the CCP they allowed Europe to be infected by the Wuhan virus due to unrestricted travel by Chinese carrying the virus, resulting in 100’s of thousands of deaths across the EU, and you think the Chinese are no problem?
gravenimage says
The unfree Chinese are definitely a problem. One can argue that they might be less of a problem than Islam–but this is not saying much.
Infidel says
Uh, Italy and Hungary are both part of Belt/Road scams, and the EU has been happy to work w/ China. Maybe the EU and OAU can work together: there is no reason that the US has to babysit the whole world
juleonly says
Biden wants to sell us to EU and all that goes with it (China/Iran) Its Globalism and it will destroy us….it is destroying us.
juleonly says
EU is RUN by China and Iran, though they speak softly so I guess you have no idea. And now Biden wants to sell us to EU. Nothing is worse than this Globalist cabal.
Giacomo Latta says
The Chinese (Chinese Army) have hacked the computers of Burbank Studios in Hollywood, among other companies, in this case to get confidential information on negotiations between the US and China re: distribution rights. If these hackers were on US soil it would be considered an act of war but as long as the Chinese Army commits these attacks from the comfort of their own nest of vipers it is considered OK. Perhaps there are no computers in Holland worth hacking.
Aastra says
leave the indo pacific out. already your interference in their internal matters is causing havoc.
why cant murica mind their own damn business instead of poking their nose in everything.
gregbeetham says
What “interference in their internal matters is causing havoc” are you talking about? China is interfering in their internal matters far more than anyone else.
Provide some evidence that ‘murica’ is interfering.
Infidel says
Except that Modi himself is pretty enthusiastic about this alliance, as are Morrison and Abe/Suga. We are certainly not interfering: you (Indians) have been (rightly) supporting countries like Vietnam and Mongolia and counteracting China in Asia.
You seem to be a pro-China bot, probably an Indian Marxist. Which would explain most of your rants on this site
Raja says
+1
gravenimage says
Looks as though Aastra is enraged that the Islamic State was dismantled. So much better when ISIS was enslaving sex slaves and committing genocide, I suppose…
mortimer says
An intelligent retort from Mike Pompeo. Pompeo was a real military officer who graduated at the top of his class, and then CIA Director and he knows how horrible our enemies are and how low they will sink … unlike B(r)I(b)den’s effete ivory-tower elitists.
Fred van de Bunt says
Pompeo seen any real combat or been on a mission far away, alone, apart from hanging in a tank in peaceful Germany?
Being a director of some government office and putting your signature under some mission plans does not make you a taugh guy field expert. You are just the desk manager.
He does not differ from other ivory tower guys, if you ask me.
James Lincoln says
Fred van de Bunt,
When you are an active duty military, you serve where you are ordered to go – some very good places and some very bad places…
Fred van de Bunt says
The head of the CIA, the spy agency, Pompeo, is not the military?
Fred van de Bunt says
Anyway, I don’t like Pompeo. Better say straight, since I am not the guy that is convinced easy. Pompeo is the guy that would put a knife in Trump’s back, for some dollars extra. That is why Pompeo is head of a spy agency of course and not of a military, that a straight forward guys.
juleonly says
He is the most realistic, tough with a smile and best we have ever had. I would like to see him run for President with Tulsi Gabbard, who knows all about the military complex.
juleonly says
Wouldn’t he make a great President…..maybe with Tulsi Gabbard as vice.
Infidel says
Except that he’s in many respects a semi-neocon, who supports US troops being all over the place, and had been one of the advocates for going slow on the troop withdrawals. Whereas Tulsi’s stances are identical only to Rand Paul’s
Andrew Blackadder says
Make America Great Again… Orange Man bad.
America is Back… Creepy old Joe.
Does the Democratic Party think these slogans through before spewing them out to the general public…
Thats not a trick question…
gravenimage says
Pompeo on Biden’s ‘America is back’: ‘Does he mean back to when ISIS controlled a caliphate the size of Britain?’
…………….
Probably not directly–but this is what the weak and appeasing Biden administration may well lead to.
Aastra says
murica being murica. they wont stop until they make everyone as their eternal enemy. just like mudslimes they will blame everyone other than themselves.
gravenimage says
So how was ending the Islamic State a bad thing? And no–Muslims hate America for being a free Infidel nation.
gregbeetham says
Yes, they hate the disbelievers in the West, America, the EU, the UK, Australia, Canada, but funnily enough want to go there by any means possible and bring their poison with them, the very thing they are running away from.
John Forbes says
BIDEN is just “Flapping his GUMS” & the cheap talk is worthless!
Threatening PUTIN will be seen as a JOKE in Russia & Everywhere else!
NONSENSE!
Rick Rockwood says
Commenting from Canada, this sounds like plagiarism; a well known Biden trait. It was the comment of our incompetent Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, when Liberals came back to power after say 12 years of Conservative leadership. That conservative leadership had Canada placed in remarkable shape to walk through the 2007-8 rape of the middle class by Wall Street and the governing elitists. So what has Pierre’s son done since coming to power in Canada? Totally destroyed it – making us a non-nation state was his globalist objective. He has run it into the greatest per capita debt of the G-7/20. He has advanced the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and cultural jihad has been victorious. He is on the way to eliminating the Caucasian of western/northern European decent from Canadian leadership, etc. He has totally wimpified Canada. This is what lays in wait for America. Too sad.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Fun fact: the “caliphate the size of Britain” is actually Britain
gravenimage says
Ouch!
Ned says
Pompeo is the guy who appointed a Muslim jihadi who hates America to the Human Rights (?) Commission despite being warned about the jihad by high-level experts
Read this string of tweets by Steve Coughlin and remember it when Pompeo is lauded as the next GOP candidate for president or VP …he should be neither
https://twitter.com/S_Coughlin_DC/status/1339022441159462913