Good, State has needed a good cleaning out for a while. I am sure that this is warming the cockles of Edward Luttwak’s heart. He is a military strategist, and was a prof of mine at Georgetown in about 1982. He, uh, didn’t have much good to say about State. In fact, he was probably only half kidding when he told us that the very best single thing that President Reagan could do to improve our foreign policy would be to:
1) Order the Army Corps of Engineers to dig a tunnel from somewhere in Virginia, underneath the Potomac River, and terminating underneath Foggy Bottom, and to have them dig a large chamber at the terminus. This would have to be done so as not to be detected.
2) When the tunnel was completed, order the chamber to be filled with high explosives, and the rest of the tunnel to be back-filled.
3) When that was done, order the explosives to be blown at the precise time when every single key person at DOS was at a meeting on the 7th Floor, save Alexander Haig (then the Secretary).
I’m at a loss to explain why that wouldn’t be a good idea right now...and I’m ALSO only half-kidding. Of course, firing the one-worlder SOBs works, too, but it is not as quick as the other method.
Haig was a great choice for S of S.
However, he didn’t go in with the drain the swamp attitude like Trump/T Rex.
Which is why he didn’t last.