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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo harshly criticized former Biden administration officials who signed a recent letter expressing dissent with the U.S. government’s failure to intervene in Israel’s conflict with Hamas.
“It’s a sad moment when the moral compass of career foreign service officers is so broken that they cannot discern good from evil,” Pompeo wrote on Twitter, referring to the letter signed by 120 former State Department officials condemning the “inaction” of U.S. leadership in the conflict.
The letter argued that the U.S. government’s “failure to publicly condemn this violence” and Palestinian “tragic loss of life” was a “dereliction of our duty” to promote diplomatic and humanitarian solutions. The letter urged the Biden Administration to publicly condemn the violence and work to protect innocent lives.
Pompeo’s response was denounced by many on Twitter, with some noting that the letter was an expression of dissent, not an abandonment of ideals of morality. Others questioned how Pompeo could have such a distorted moral compass himself, given his history of promoting policies such as the Muslim travel ban and his role in facilitating former president Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.