The rise of Pompeo

I don't know why Trump waited so long.He has been tired of his secretary of state for months. Rex Tillerson had been selected for the State Department job because Trump thought as a hgh-powered oil executive who was pally with Putin he would be a tough cookie and would support all his favourite hates,like the Iran nuclear deal. But Tillerson chose to use diplomatic language, not the rhetoric of war and he became an embarrassment to the president. Trump told him nothing, not even that he was about to make the most dramatic decision of his presidency, his on-the-spot decision to accept the offer of talks with Kim Jong-un. Tillerson was in the dark. Can you imagine Obama not telling Hillary Clinton that he was about to make a huge announcement on foreign policy, or George W Bush not warn Condi Rice first before making a Big Statement. So Tillerson is out and Mike Pompeo, a big man with very Trump-like views, steps up into his post. From the dark games of the CIA to the world arena of diplomacy. Pompeo hates the Iran nuclear deal as much as Trump does. He has stated publically he thinks, sorry knows, Iran is cheating on the deal by doing things they claim they're not doing. I can see a Trump/Pompeo assault on Obama's nuclear deal and even if it is not torn up - which it can't be because there are five other big-power signatures on the agreement - there's going to be some furious Trump/Pompeo rewriting or adding to try and keep Iran in check for longer than the ten-year period in the deal and also to do something about the Quds Force, the special forces element of the Revolutionary Guard which stirs up trouble for Washington wherever it operates in the Middle East and elsewhere. Pompeo will not pull any punches, unlike Tillerson who has been as quiet as the quietest church mouse. It's going to be a rumbustious time. Poor old Tillerson disappears back into obscurity. It was reported he was not told why he had been sacked. But then he didn't need to be. He knew Trump had gone off him like a bad egg.