“Foreign policy “experts”, and the State Department, seem to be dominated by Ivy League types, and thus cultural Marxists.”
Only the ones we here from. I’ve worked alongside hundreds... and if not thousands of analysts and they have their heads on right.
They just don’t appear on the news. It’s the people that appear on the news that make you think that no one knows what’s going on.
There are Analysts who can rattle off all of the family acquaintances of obscure Kuwaiti emirs, and can tell you where they live, what they do for a living, how they react to things, etc.
We know foreign policy, and we know the global playing field. You just don’t see those people.
Fair enough. So clear out everyone say, GS-16 and above, and of course all of the Obama political appointees, and leave the regular folks in place?
“There are Analysts who can rattle off all of the family acquaintances of obscure Kuwaiti emirs, and can tell you where they live, what they do for a living, how they react to things, etc. We know foreign policy, and we know the global playing field. You just don’t see those people.”
And that is PRECISELY the problem. The exact opposite is what we need. These Kuwaiti bastards should be memorizing OUR names, learning what we want, etc.
There is a story from the Reagan years where diplomats were asked to point out their country on a globe. They were always corrected and told that the USA is your country.
Knowing these foreign nations so slavishly is exactly the wrong message. We teach them that THEY are primary and that we will adjust to their every custom, whim, and feeling. Obama bowing is an example. Hillary wearing a headrag. Bush holding hands with a Saudi man as they walk along.
Why wasn’t the Saudi king told not to take an American mans hand will make him think you are a homo?
Diplomacy will be done correctly when we see them kissing our ass, not the opposite.