U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says President Donald Trump has made the United States and the world safer by directly confronting Islamic terrorism, paving the way for a historic peace agreement. He also explained that Trump is ensuring THE SECURITY of the U.S. homeland by best deploying resources and seeking partners in regions such as Afghanistan.
Mr Pompeo made the comments in an interview with US media outlet Breitbart News last week.
Pompeo: Americans are significantly safer under Trump
Pompeo said the Trump administration has not seen a spate of terrorist attacks like the one at the end of the previous administration because it has directly confronted radical Islamic terrorism. For example, the terrorist attacks in SAN Bernardino, California, in December 2015, and Orlando, Florida, in June 2016. While the problem of terrorist attacks has not been completely eliminated, Pompeo said Americans are significantly safer at home during Trump’s presidency than during his predecessor’s.
Pompeo said the Trump administration is fighting terrorists by taking their strongholds, destroying the caliphate, and taking out people like the mastermind of terrorist acts, Qassem Soleimani. Suleiman, Iran’s no. 2 official, was killed by a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport in January.
“These are serious actions by serious leaders who say that it is not enough to reassure and allow them [the terrorists] to grow. This will eventually lead to bad results. By confronting it, we have managed to avoid going into any new war, which is no small matter for a government.” “Pompeo said.
How will Trump ensure the security of the U.S. homeland
Pompeo explained that the Trump administration is taking these steps to fight terrorism in the knowledge that the “risks” from such terrorists at home are “multifaceted.” That’s why the president and his team have been looking to strengthen the ability of like-minded countries in the region to directly confront and challenge terrorists who would inflict harm on the United States.
“The risk to the [US] homeland from terrorism is multifaceted and can come from many places,” Mr Pompeo said. “You want to find friends and partners who are like-minded and have the capacity to help you deal with it, and make sure that you are deploying whatever resources you have to address the issue at hand.”
“At one point after 9/11, the United States had more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan,” Pompeo said. When President Trump took office, the U.S. had only a few thousand troops there. We said, ‘Look, we have terrorist threats all over the world. How can we best deploy our resources? ‘We’ve come to the conclusion that we can work with the Afghans, talk to the Taliban, and come to the negotiating table, negotiate, and take ourselves to a place that reduces the risk to American soil, the risk to American soldiers’ lives. That’s the model we’re using more broadly in the Middle East: find friends and partners. So the UAE, North Africa, Sudan, Bahrain and others who are working with us, they will join us in confronting the core threat there, which begins with the caliphate, “he said.
Pompeo said don’t forget that when the Trump administration first took office, terrorists there were beheading captured people or putting them in cages, but that is no longer the case.
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