SOUTHERN ISRAEL – As Iran continues to stir up its proxies in the Middle East, the targeting of U.S. interests is continuing. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, recently on a solidarity trip here, says there’s just one answer.
Pompeo believes Americans are being attacked in the Middle East due to a loss of deterrence.
“The enemy is emboldened when you no longer have convinced them that there’ll be a true cost to pay,” he told CBN News. “And whatever we have done in response so far – whatever one thinks about those responses – it is demonstrably true that they’ve not been sufficient, that they have not been adequate yet to deter the Iranian regime from continuing to threaten our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. And we’ve got to get that back.”
Pompeo told us he’ll leave the “how” up to others, but he knows it can be done.
“But I know how to do it because we did it for four years and we were able to demonstrate to the Iranians that there was a price to pay if you put Americans at risk,” the former secretary recalled.
While in southern Israel, Pompeo held a press conference at the site of the Nova
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