Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on his 1000th day as AmericaвЂ™s 70th secretary of state, (Photo: Secretary Pompeo's Official Twitter account) Instead, we wanted to find out about Mike Pompeo, the husband and father from Wichita, Kansas, and get his take on all the good news emerging from MENA, starting with the paradigm-shifting Abraham Accords. While these issues are important вЂ“ and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has traditionally provided no shortage of such depressing stories вЂ“ Yalla leaves the bad news to others. When Pompeo agreed to an interview with our new Arabic-language show Yalla, we expected to meet a tough guy who talks about war, genocide and sanctions. And it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that our cause is just, special, and built upon America's core principles,вЂќ Pompeo said when he became the 70th secretary of state. In our case, it is AmericaвЂ™s essential rightness. вЂњSwagger is confidence in oneвЂ™s self, in oneвЂ™s ideas. Pompeo has a direct, no-nonsense demeanor, which can be intimidating.

He graduated at the top of his West Point Military Academy class and patrolled the Berlin Wall during the Cold War as a young U.S. secretary of state and CIA director is most familiar to people around the world as the hard-nosed American facing off against the likes of North KoreaвЂ™s Kim Jong-un, ChinaвЂ™s Xi Jinping and IranвЂ™s Ayatollah Khamenei. Mike Pompeo is not known for his warm and fuzzy style.

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