“If the Taliban don’t behave, if they don’t deliver on the commitments that they’ve made to us now for weeks, and in some cases months, the president is not going to reduce the pressure, we’re not going to reduce our support for the Afghan security forces that have fought so hard there in Afghanistan.” Here’s […]
Pompeo on ISIS bride with CAIR lawyer: “She’s a noncitizen terrorist…she’s not coming back to the US”
The establishment media and Hamas-linked CAIR continue to push for the US and the UK to readmit Islamic State jihadis. These are people who joined an entity that is avowedly at war with both countries, and that has repeatedly called for the murder of American and British civilians. They should not be allowed back in. […]
Pompeo: “Our effort is to make sure that the Iranian people get control of their capital”
“Our effort is to make sure that the Iranian people get control of their capital, and it becomes a nation that is normal and is not conducting terror campaigns that are unrivaled any place else in the world.” It is a consummation devoutly to be wished. Let’s hope his assurance translates into real and effective […]
Pompeo: “We’ve taken down 99 percent” of the Islamic State caliphate
This is a momentous statement. When Barack Obama left office, the Islamic State caliphate looked as if it was here to stay, and was following the precedent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in moving from being considered a jihad terror group to being respectable. But now it is almost all gone, although the Islamic State […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Who Will Reconstruct Syria?
Now that the Islamic State has been driven out of the last town it controlled in Syria, the question must be asked: who will reconstruct the country? Estimates for the reconstruction of Syria range from $250 billion to one trillion dollars. Where will that money come from? Nothing will come from the deep-pocketed Saudis, Emiratis, […]
Trump administration places Pakistan on list of worst violators of religious freedom
The Trump administration has put Pakistan “on its annual list of worst offenders for nations that it says infringe on religious freedom,” largely because of its infamous blasphemy laws. The high profile case of “Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was recently acquitted of blasphemy but has been unable to leave the country due […]
Pompeo: Restored US sanctions will prevent Iran from funding Hizballah, Houthis
This makes sense, since that is what they did with the billions that Obama gave them. “Pompeo: US sanctions will prevent Iran from funding Hezbollah, Houthis,” Al Arabiya, November 5, 2018: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the reimposition of sanctions against Iran will prevent Tehran from funding Hezbollah and the Houthi […]
Pompeo slams Khamenei for hypocrisy over “Palestinian” aid funding
Pompeo said “that while the US has provided $6.3 billion in aid to support Palestinians since 1994, ‘Iran’s morally corrupt regime provided hundreds of millions in aid to terrorists who endanger the Palestinians’ lives and livelihoods.’ Pompeo went on to note that Iran had provided a sum of only $20,000 to UNRWA between 2008 and […]
President Trump Puts Terrorists on Notice
When President Trump appointed former CIA director Michael Pompeo to replace Rex W. Tillerson as Secretary of State and former UN Ambassador John Bolton as his new National Security advisor, many pundits predicted that the Trump administration was serious in dealing with rogue states. Both Bolton and Pompeo had advocated that Iran and North Korea […]
White House blames Hamas for Gaza protester deaths: “Israel has the right to defend itself”
What Raj Shah said is true, but it is startling to see it come from the White House after so many years when Israel was always the one to blame there. “White House on protester deaths: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself,’” CNN, May 14, 2018: White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah addressed […]
Robert Spencer video: New York Times hits Pompeo and Bolton for opposing jihad terror
In this new video, I discuss a recent New York Times hit piece on Mike Pompeo and John Bolton for having ties to so-called “anti-Muslim” groups, that is, groups that oppose jihad terror.
Pompeo: Iranian proxy Hizballah “threatens us right here in the homeland”
Hezbollah, Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy, “threatens” Americans in the U.S. homeland, Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of State….The U.S. military has repeatedly warned against the growing presence of Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, stressing that operations linked to the Shiite entities present a menace to the United States. With the […]
Democrats grill Pompeo about personal rights of Muslims in the U.S.
This is a case of the Democrats believing their own rhetoric. Leftists and Islamic supremacists have been calling opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims and others “anti-Muslim” for so long that many actually think that opposition is some attempt to deny Muslims rights. In reality, opposition to jihad terror is not […]
National security experts and public policy practitioners support Pompeo for Secretary of State
April 10, 2018 The Honorable Bob Corker Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee 423 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Robert Menendez Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee 423 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senators Corker and Menendez: We are national security experts and public policy practitioners writing to express […]
Trump State Department: Tillerson out, Pompeo in
“The president, however, had clashed with Tillerson over and over again in the past year, seeing him as a relic of the Republican establishment at a time when the nation needed more unconventional thinking.” This is very good news, for just that reason. We can only hope that with the departure of Tillerson, the failed […]
Osama bin Laden porn stash will not be released
It is no surprise that the chief of al Qaeda would have a stash of porn, which is not to say that benign folk also possess porn. They do, but in the case of jihadis it is often paired with cruelty and sadism against infidels: Michael Flynn, former chief of staff for President Donald Trump […]
Trump at CIA: “We have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice….This is a level of evil that we haven’t seen”
“We have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice. Radical Islamic terrorism, and I said it yesterday, has to be eradicated, just off the face of the earth. This is evil. This is evil….This is a level of evil that we haven’t seen. And you’re going to go it and you’re going to […]
Fighting for willful ignorance: Obama allies working to undermine Trump’s national security team
As I noted here, the attempt to restore sanity and truth to the U.S. response to the jihad threat is going to encounter fierce resistance from the forces of obscurantism and willful ignorance. “Obama Allies Working to Undermine Trump’s National Security Team,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 21, 2017: Democrats loyal to former […]
Trump’s CIA nominee Mike Pompeo promises to roll back Iran deal
The Iran deal is a disaster for the United States and the free world, as I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Rolling it back, as much as this can be done (we can’t, of course, get back the billions Obama has showered upon the Islamic Republic), could be the Trump […]
Wichita Islamic Society nixes Hamas-linked speaker after congressman objects
Would the Wichita Islamic Society have canceled this Hamas speaker if Congressman Pompeo hadn’t blown the whistle? And now it is, predictably enough, playing the victim: “Madi says they were worried about reports of planned protests outside the mosque by ‘heavily armed’ individuals.” “Wichita Islamic Society nixes Hamas-linked speaker after congressman objects,” by Lauren Seabrook […]