CIA pick is ‘far-right…zealot’
That’s the book on Mike Pompeo.
Click here for reuse options!One of the many side stories that has been lost in the chaos of the Trump transition is the fact that far-right Islamophobe Frank Gaffney has been serving as a foreign policy adviser. Considering President-elect Donald Trump’s views about Muslims, this isn’t too surprising.
Trump’s shallow understanding of the issue of Islamist extremism has obviously been gleaned from the right-wing fever swamps and Gaffney owns that end of the bog. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has posted a full Gaffney dossier.)…
Gaffney once called Pompeo “one of the most intelligent men I know in public life,” and the two see the world similarly. In February 2015, they spoke about President Obama’s use of the term “violent extremism” instead of “radical Islam,” a linguistic choice that some on the right see as a secret message of solidarity with jihad. Gaffney suggested that Obama might be conveying “an affinity” for ISIS’s cause, if not all its tactics: “the raising up of the Muslim Ummah, a grand rebalancing of America’s role in the world.” Pompeo relied, “Frank, every place you stare at the president’s policies and statements, you see what you just described … every policy of this administration has treated America as if we are the problem and not the solution.”
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Mike January 14th, 2017 at 12:27
I love my country and want it to prosper, but truthfully, we are very often the problem, and not the solution.
fahvel January 14th, 2017 at 14:29
huh??
Willys41 January 14th, 2017 at 12:32
A far-right zealot? So he should fit right in with the Trump gang and the entire GOP.
Buford2k11 January 14th, 2017 at 13:36
the Theocracy is shaping up…Now, all they need is for the CIA to end trump’s fake presidency, and install Pence…
fahvel January 14th, 2017 at 14:28
where do these sick fks find these ideas? or do they just make em up on the run just to sound tuff and, of course, moronic and evil.
Charlie Seivard January 14th, 2017 at 15:14
How soon until he finds a war to start.
amersham1046 January 14th, 2017 at 18:37
No, too many private agendas to even agree upon an common enemy
The Original Just Me January 14th, 2017 at 20:35
Far Right …. Zealot—– You just described Trump’s Entire Cabinet.
bpollen January 15th, 2017 at 05:00
Don’t worry, everybody! He accepted Jebus into his life. And as Jim Jones and David Koresh proved, Jebus makes you just better than everybody else.