07-17-2012, 11:17 AM
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=hal]
Damn, but she's done a good job of sec state.
She's done a good job on foreign policy, but she's mismanaged the State Department.
We need a big foreign-service overhaul to get them out of the 1950s cold-war pseudo-military us-against-them mentality that still pervades the entire structure from the lowest to the highest offices.
Appointed Neocons were placed in civil service positions at the end of President Bush's term. Hard to dump them.