1 to herald what he called his foreign policy successes, echoing Mr. Instead, he has continued a barrage of daily Twitter posts that began Jan. Pompeo has not, although people close to him said he was appalled by the attack. Trump’s supporters this month, however, a growing number of Republican officials have sought to distance themselves from the departing president. Trump’s administration - a designation that is far more tarnished abroad than it is with hard-core Republicans who care little about foreign policy in elections. Pompeo might hope to be remembered as a key player in Mr. Powell’s tenure was forever stained by his citing of faulty intelligence to urge the invasion of Iraq in 2003 - what he has called “painful” and a “blot” on his record - but he is widely viewed as more of a statesman than Mr. Powell had retired as a four-star Army general before becoming President George W. Pompeo is not the first military man to become the country’s chief diplomat: Colin L. The United States has less standing to promote democracy and human rights in the world than it did four years ago, according to many career diplomats. Relations with key European leaders, the United Nations and other diplomatic and economic alliances are in worse shape. Fontaine noted that Iran is now closer to building a nuclear bomb and that North Korea has more nuclear weapons than it did at the beginning of the Trump administration. “The glass is far more empty than it is full,” said Richard Fontaine, the president of the Center for a New American Security and a former diplomat who advised Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign as the Republican nominee in 2008. That will come back to haunt him as he considers running for president in 2024 or seeking another elected office, as he is widely believed to be doing. Pompeo, 57, has been tagged by a number of officials and analysts with the dubious distinction of the worst secretary of state in American history. Pompeo’s strategy backfired, according to foreign policy analysts and a large cohort in the State Department.Īs he leaves office, Mr. Foreign policies were described as “mission sets,” and his wife, Susan, was a “force multiplier” in disarming dignitaries and families of State Department employees.īut by rejecting the traditional role of predictable diplomacy and mirroring President Trump’s own style, Mr. Pompeo embraced the same military mentality to confront the world. Thirty-five years later, after becoming the 70th secretary of state in 2018, Mr. Pompeo said on Tuesday, in his last public speech in office - it was a powerful indoctrination for a young soldier in training to protect the United States from deadly enemies. By his own telling - “My life wouldn’t be the same after that,” Mr. Pompeo was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, an Iranian-linked militia bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 American troops. WASHINGTON - Spurned by many foreign allies, ridiculed by adversaries, disliked by a significant number of his own diplomats and trying to preserve his political future, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week offered an insight into his legacy as a commander of the Trump administration’s scorched-earth foreign policy by citing a seminal moment in his personal history.
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