Pompeo believes in dispensational premillennialism. Which is to say that he thinks the world will end in literal Armageddon when the Antichrist comes to earth and the forces of Heaven and Hell do battle on the plains of Megiddo in Israel. Of course, Pompeo will have been swept up in the Rapture, so he'll be a-ok.

And yes, it sounds utterly insane to me too.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/26/americas-islamophobia-i...

For more background on dispensational premillennialism, check out https://crooked.com/podcast/karma-magnificent-btch-w-diana-b...

> Pompeo seems pretty sane to me.

So did Colin Powell.

My impression was that Powell let himself being bullied into it. Which is not good either.