Pompeo's pompous pitch for perpetual war

Can the Trump administration get any more schizophrenic on perpetual war? One day Trump announces we're withdrawing all 2,000 troops from Syria plus half the 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, arguing we have no business in the Middle East. Within a month he allows his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to promote perpetual war in a speech at American University in Cairo. Pompeo pointedly blamed all America's foreign policy problems on his boss's predecessor Obama, whom he said foolishly ended the Afghan and Iraq wars, refused to attack Syria and worst of all, reached out in peace to America's current enemy de jour Iran. Pompeo's speech comes nearly ten years after Obama's famous 'A New Beginning' speech in Cairo, in which Obama offered a reset to the US relationship to the Muslim world so terribly damaged by George W. Bush's Middle East war policies. Pompeo boosted of continuing US Syrian intervention till every last Iranian is out of Syria, lauded US withdrawal from the 5+1 Iranian nuclear deal and even threatened US intervention against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Sadly and tragically, the foreign policy establishment committed to perpetual war, including virtually all of Trump's subordinates, simply ignore Trump's pronouncements for peace, the one decent thing he's done as president. Once again we learn that 'war is the health of the state'.