CIA chief announced!
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Mr. Pompeo, who has served for three terms in Congress and is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, gained prominence for his role in the congressional investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. He was a sharp critic of Hillary Clinton on the committee.
Over the past year, the C.I.A. has undergone a bureaucratic reorganization under its director, John O. Brennan, an effort Mr. Pompeo would decide whether he wants to continue.
Mr. Pompeo has been a staunch opponent of the agreement the United States and five world powers struck with Iran in 2015 to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for the lifting of international oil and financial sanctions. In a July 2016 op-ed article that was published on the Fox News site, Mr. Pompeo wrote that the United States should “walk away from this deal.”
according to his congressional website, Mr. Pompeo, 52, graduated first in his class at West Point and “served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.” After leaving the military, Mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School a
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/donald-trump-mike-pompeo-cia.html?_r=0
Over the past year, the C.I.A. has undergone a bureaucratic reorganization under its director, John O. Brennan, an effort Mr. Pompeo would decide whether he wants to continue.
Mr. Pompeo has been a staunch opponent of the agreement the United States and five world powers struck with Iran in 2015 to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for the lifting of international oil and financial sanctions. In a July 2016 op-ed article that was published on the Fox News site, Mr. Pompeo wrote that the United States should “walk away from this deal.”
according to his congressional website, Mr. Pompeo, 52, graduated first in his class at West Point and “served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.” After leaving the military, Mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School a
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/donald-trump-mike-pompeo-cia.html?_r=0
I do not know how to undo the crappy Iran deal. It wasn't a treaty ( it was an international executive multi-lateral agreement).
So Trump can simply not enforce it.
But most of the carrots have been given to Iran upfront ( planeloads of cash/back seized funds) -so what good what it do to "undo"it.
Also other signatorys ( the P5+1 group) aren't going to undo it.
Obama really screwed up here -it should have been a treaty, but the damage is done while Iran tromps unchecked around the mideast.
Iran is routinely violating heavy water quotas, and ballistic missile tests.
So Trump can simply not enforce it.
But most of the carrots have been given to Iran upfront ( planeloads of cash/back seized funds) -so what good what it do to "undo"it.
Also other signatorys ( the P5+1 group) aren't going to undo it.
Obama really screwed up here -it should have been a treaty, but the damage is done while Iran tromps unchecked around the mideast.
Iran is routinely violating heavy water quotas, and ballistic missile tests.
It's a familiar, if unsubstantiated refrain.
a) It was not a unilateral treaty. There are signatories to it apart from the U.S. & Iran.
There's also:
- Britain,
- France,
- Germany,
- China, &
- Russia.
And you assert:
"Obama really screwed up here" #3
Hilarious!
Obama boinked up?
But Britain, France, Germany, China, & Russia just went along to the whore-house for company?
b) As true of much diplomacy, including nuclear diplomacy, it's an uncontrolled experiment. Even if it blows up (hasn't yet), who's to say it wouldn't have been worse without it?
c) Have you read the Israeli battle plan for addressing Iran's nuclear program?
MERCIFUL HEAVENS: it's damn near Armageddon!!
Iran's nuclear infrastructure was DELIBERATELY deep underground, to put it out of reach of even nuclear "bunker-buster" explosives.
Israel's battle plan was to strike Iran's underground nuclear site with a nuke; leaving a crater.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
- wash, rinse, repeat -
The plan was to do that until they'd destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
BUT !!
There are problems. Among them:
Iran has anti-aircraft missiles that travel at mach 5. They'll take out any plane Israel can fly.
And ordnance experts said it would take at least 7 direct hits with nuclear weapons to dig a crater deep enough to accomplish that mission.
Compared to WHAT?!
I hardly think multiple bomb nuclear war in the Middle East is the preferred scenario here.
wher did I say it was a "unilateral" treaty?" (and you must mean bilateral - there is no such thing as unilateral treaty.
It's a familiar, if unsubstantiated refrain.
a) It was not a unilateral treaty. There are signatories to it apart from the U.S. & Iran.
There's also:
- Britain,
- France,
- Germany,
- China, &
- Russia.
And you assert:
"Obama really screwed up here" #3
Hilarious!
Obama boinked up?
But Britain, France, Germany, China, & Russia just went along to the whore-house for company?
b) As true of much diplomacy, including nuclear diplomacy, it's an uncontrolled experiment. Even if it blows up (hasn't yet), who's to say it wouldn't have been worse without it?
c) Have you read the Israeli battle plan for addressing Iran's nuclear program?
MERCIFUL HEAVENS: it's damn near Armageddon!!
Iran's nuclear infrastructure was DELIBERATELY deep underground, to put it out of reach of even nuclear "bunker-buster" explosives.
Israel's battle plan was to strike Iran's underground nuclear site with a nuke; leaving a crater.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
Then, drop another nuke into the crater, deepening the crater further.
- wash, rinse, repeat -
The plan was to do that until they'd destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
BUT !!
There are problems. Among them:
Iran has anti-aircraft missiles that travel at mach 5. They'll take out any plane Israel can fly.
And ordnance experts said it would take at least 7 direct hits with nuclear weapons to dig a crater deep enough to accomplish that mission.
Compared to WHAT?!
I hardly think multiple bomb nuclear war in the Middle East is the preferred scenario here.
Israel has little to do with checking Iran -that has to be done by SA and the Sunni states..
The rest of you post .I haven't got time to deal with.
Thanks for the English lesson, unnecessary though it is.
My comment is factually impeccable; and you've now corroborated it. I commented that it wasn't. You now corroborate it could not possibly have been.
So we are in accord on it.
Obama had to do a lot of arm-twisting to prevent Netanyahu from attacking Iran over it; on casus belli that Iran's leadership has committed itself to "removing Israel from the map".
Kudos to Obama / Kerry for (at least until now) avoiding nuclear war in the M.E.
Where did I say you said it?
My comment is factually impeccable; and you've now corroborated it. I commented that it wasn't. You now corroborate it could not possibly have been.
So we are in accord on it.
?!
Obama had to do a lot of arm-twisting to prevent Netanyahu from attacking Iran over it; on casus belli that Iran's leadership has committed itself to "removing Israel from the map".
Kudos to Obama / Kerry for (at least until now) avoiding nuclear war in the M.E.
Praise the lord.
#7
There was some wrangling on it during the Bush administration.
But the Obama administration has been pretty even-keeled about it.
Whether the Trump administration will back-slide on it; I don't know.
But if President Trump fails us; we can hope our "plan-B" back-up of principled professionalism in our military and FBI / CIA may save it.
Let's bear in mind; the waterboarding of KSM was an excess; but was conducted under conditions the Obama administration has addressed.
And the excesses at Abu Gharaib were improvised off-shift, by low-ranking military personnel.
I'm not predicting Trump will be an award-winning girl scout.
But if Trump hasn't learned these lessons, perhaps our agents in our departments and agencies have.
There was some wrangling on it during the Bush administration.
But the Obama administration has been pretty even-keeled about it.
Whether the Trump administration will back-slide on it; I don't know.
But if President Trump fails us; we can hope our "plan-B" back-up of principled professionalism in our military and FBI / CIA may save it.
Let's bear in mind; the waterboarding of KSM was an excess; but was conducted under conditions the Obama administration has addressed.
And the excesses at Abu Gharaib were improvised off-shift, by low-ranking military personnel.
I'm not predicting Trump will be an award-winning girl scout.
But if Trump hasn't learned these lessons, perhaps our agents in our departments and agencies have.
they have. You wont see the next abu gharaib anymore