If that's true, it means the underlying scenario about what has occurred differs considerably from the way the story at first appeared. Like Pompeo or not, he doesn't seem to be a gadfly. Therefore, this is a calculated ramping up which President Trump bought into.
An interesting thing here is that this is the sort of event which people worried about in regard to Bolton when he was in the Trump Administration, given that he is a hawk in general and very hawkish in regard to Iran.
Pompeo is 56 years old, a few months younger than me, and is a West Point graduate. Given his age and first occupation, he'd have the memory of the tail end of the Cold War as well as the first crisis with Iran, and have it from a partially institutional sense. He entered active duty, if a person doesn't regard West Point itself as active duty, in 1986 and served until 1991, when he left the service to attend Harvard Law School.
He practiced law for only four years before entering a private venture. He entered Congress, from Kansas, in 2010 and became head of the CIA in 2017.
What does this tell you? Well, maybe not very much, other than that the appearance of this being a surprising unilateral decision by Donald Trump appears to be wrong. Pompeo is from the right wing Tea Party wing of the GOP and is an evangelical protestant. He's highly educated, and has a military background (the latter of which usually makes a person hesitant to use force). All of which may inform us on current events not at all.
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