With Internet, they don’t need people there at all. They can apply online for visas, extensions, lodge complaints or ask questions................................
“Obama’s ‘Experts’ and Trump’s Instincts”
Democrat Presidents don’t have experts. They have people who know how to read text books and maybe visited the country once or twice handle foreign policy and diplomacy. Mostly the CIA compiles a profile on the country and that becomes the gospel.
Academics without experience outside the hallowed halls of academia doesn’t make you an expert. It makes you an ideologue without a stitch of common sense which pretty much sums up liberalism.
I think you need a small contingent of folks, to see people face to face and physically process paperwork and applications. But, the need for having a few hundred to 1000 employees in any one embassy is absurd.
Lots of guys that I used to work with were convinced that all those employees were just CIA folks, using the State Dept as cover. Well, there are CIA folks at every embassy. The Chief of Station and staff. And there may be quite a few others, with cover jobs. But, if the people I saw, protected and shared the dining hall with, at the US Embassy in Iraq, are any indication of our spies and their political loyalties, then this country is F*CKED, emphasis mine. And we have been since the 50s or 60s. Because Jason Bourne and James Bond, they are not.
Additionally, the US Government and State Dept ABSOLUTELY HAS to cut ties with all the NGOs, etc, that work with the State Dept. These are the organizations that go out and recruit refugees and coach them on what to say to the willing accomplices in the State Dept. They all make a good living. Live off the US taxpayer. And flood the US with 3rd world ugly. All so they can go back to their friends in DC and NYC and brag about how many people they saved.