US government ‘insanely’ disorganized in its policies, ex-diplomat suggests
The government under US President Donald Trump is “insanely” disorganized in issuing and conducting policies, suggests a former diplomat
J. Michael Springmann made the remarks in a Saturday interview with Press TV, while commenting on a statement by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about the Iran nuclear deal.
After a meeting with Tillerson, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday that the new secretary of state had suggested that he would “get rid of” of the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Tillerson denied the claim later in the day, saying, “I didn’t leave any such impression.”
Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France plus Germany -- signed a landmark nuclear agreement on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16, 2016.
Since he started campaigning for the US 2016 presidential election, now-President Donald Trump has taken ambiguous stances against the deal on different occasions, sometimes threatening to “renegotiate” it and sometimes to “repeal” it for good.
Tillerson’s denial is “just a continuation of more confusion from the Trump administration about who speaks for the United States on what subject,” Springmann told Press TV.
He exemplified the idea by recounting a similarly ambiguous stance adopted by the Trump administration towards the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“Yesterday, [US Defense] Secretary [James] Mattis was saying that he supported NATO; at the same time, President Trump said that it has to be changed and we had to modify it,” said the Washington-based political commentator. “You never know whether this is simply lack of information, inability to deal with reality, inability to govern.”
Sometime, it is assumed that such ambiguity is intentional and meant to “test someone or some group’s reaction, but at the same time, it shows the United States doesn't know what it’s doing,” noted the analyst.
“It’s totally confusing; it’s totally insane and the American government’s got to get itself organized.”
Under the nuclear agreement, Iran undertook to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.
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