# Making America Grating Again - Pompeo pisses off entire UN Security Council **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 22, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723 "2020-08-22T06:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723/1 "2020-08-22T06:26:13Z")
…except the Dominican Republic. 🙂   > **Diplomats at the UN said the depth of US isolation was in part a reflection of the abrasive style used by Pompeo** , who accused Europeans of choosing to “side with the ayatollahs”, and the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, a political appointee. > > “The Americans were actually being over the top in their ridiculousness,” one diplomat said. > > “The underlying point here is that most countries on the security council basically agree with the US that Iran is not a nice country and it having nuclear weapons and more arms is not a good thing,” the diplomat said. **“But the Americans misplayed their hand so often, so aggressively, that they isolated themselves from people not on policy, but on just being unpleasant.”** > **[Iran sanctions: nearly all UN security council unites against 'unpleasant' US](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/us-iran-sanctions-un-mike-pompeo)** > > Letters from 13 of 15 members underscore US isolation as it seeks to ‘snap back’ measures against Tehran ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723/2 "2020-08-22T06:39:53Z")
Yeah, if I was the Dominican Republic I’d be scared to tell the US if they’d pissed me off too 😬 ---
**Author:** ![mrmaxum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmaxum/32/4140_2.png) [@mrmaxum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrmaxum)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723/3 "2020-08-22T23:51:55Z")
I’m calling that statement equine excrement . At what point is the US suppose to acquiesce and shut up about Iran’s Nuclear program . If no one is stopping the sell of that equipment from Europe to Iran that the US opposes your going to ruffle feathers . Why not ask about Turkey wanting to go to war over 16 Greek islands where is that in the news ? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723/4 "2020-08-23T01:16:20Z")
The US is trying to get the UN to declare Iran in violation of the deal that the US itself pulled out of over the objections of everyone else involved. Why in the fuck should anyone pay the least bit of attention to Pompeo’s primping at this point? You had a deal. Not a perfect deal, but a pretty good deal. You could have pushed for the strictest possible enforcement of that deal and expected the support of all your western allies at least, but noooooo. Trump tears it up, ranting and screaming, because it was Obama’s deal and gods forbid anyone admit it has the least bit of merit. Now you want us to care about the deal that you tore up? Also, Erdogan is a dictatorial thug who should be amongst the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, but I don’t have any idea what the relevance of that is to this discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-america-grating-again-pompeo-pisses-off-entire-un-security-council/918723/5 "2020-08-23T01:54:30Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > …except the Dominican Republic. 🙂 This is a bit of a hijack, but this from the linked story stood out to me: > [@](#): > > Diplomats at the UN said the depth of US isolation was in part a reflection of the abrasive style used by Pompeo, who accused Europeans of choosing to “side with the ayatollahs” This is the exact same wording used by GOP Rep. William Lamberth in Tennessee recently as he pushed (successfully) a bill to essentially make protesting illegal on state property. > [@William Lamberth](#): > > You can stand with criminals or you can stand with the rest of us that are in favor of the rule of law and in favor of law enforcement. He says this at :35 of this brief video: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/M7sICXagdUA/maxresdefault.jpg "Tennessee Bill Criminalizes Protesting | NowThis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sICXagdUA)