Posted on 08/06/2017 11:27:41 AM PDT by be-baw
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“It’s largely not a highly disciplined organization,,” he said in an interview last month while on a flight back from the Middle East, where he tried unsuccessfully to resolve a bitter feud between Qatar and four Arab nations. “Decision-making is fragmented, and sometimes people don’t want to take decisions. Coordination is difficult through the interagency — has been for every administration.”
Almost from the time of his arrival, Mr. Tillerson has said the department needed to be reorganized, and he has embarked on a wholesale rethinking of its structure. He has hired two consulting companies, undertaken a departmentwide survey and set up five committees to analyze different aspects of the department.
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“It’s largely not a highly disciplined organization,,” [Tillerson] said in an interview last month while on a flight back from the Middle East, where he tried unsuccessfully to resolve a bitter feud between Qatar and four Arab nations. “Decision-making is fragmented, and sometimes people don’t want to take decisions. Coordination is difficult through the interagency — has been for every administration.”
Almost from the time of his arrival, Mr. Tillerson has said the department needed to be reorganized, and he has embarked on a wholesale rethinking of its structure. He has hired two consulting companies, undertaken a departmentwide survey and set up five committees to analyze different aspects of the department.
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Oops. I double posted again. Sorry.
Council On Foreign Relations Global Apparatus falling like a house of cards-didn't know I would live long enough to experience such WINNING.In the Trump Era, WINNING causes WHINING, To Wit: An Article by notorious Whiner, Daniel Larison in CFR Front publication, "The American Conservative" which should be honestly titled "The American Trotskyite Globalist NeoCon"
Why the Wrecking of the State Department Matters
Daniel Larison
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a meeting for the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2017. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr)
Trump’s disdain and Tillerson’s mismanagement are doing lasting damage to the State Department:
(read the rest at the link)
How many Obama diplomats are still in place? I suspect most.
An informative read on Diplomatic organization and practice is the Retief series by Keith Laumer.
“... the adventures of a cynical spacefaring diplomat who constantly has to overcome the red-tape-infused failures of people with names like Ambassador Grossblunder. The Retief stories were greatly influenced by Laumer’s earlier career in the US Foreign Service. In an interview with Paul Walker of Luna Monthly, Laumer states “I had no shortage of iniquitous memories of the Foreign Service.” “
What you really need is a psych test to identify all those who identify more with foreign countries and NGOs vs. the US. The purge those people.
A suggestion for the New State Department...
Your job is to represent the US to other countries,
NOT to represent other countries to us. That’s what
foreign diplomats are for. As far as you are concerned,
to quote your boss, it’s America First.
Tillerson does not nominate these folks. The President does. And, we have the scene of the GOP controlled Congress slow-rolling nominations. Maybe NY Times should direct their "withering fire"
The last sentence you posted, made my heart soar!!!
Trump and Tillerson...doing lasting damage to the State Department!"
Life is Good!!!
Tillerson does not nominate these folks. The President does. And, we have the scene of the GOP controlled Congress slow-rolling nominations. Maybe NY Times should direct their "withering fire" towards such stalwarts in the senate as McConnell and McCain.
Has Tillerson murdered any of our ambassadors yet?
I don’t need any bad parts, Tillerson tells me he’s doing exactly the right job with this sentence...” “Decision-making is fragmented, and sometimes people don’t want to take decisions. Coordination is difficult “
Tillerson’s the one to drain that congested floundering swamp of tick-tockers.
I give the New York SLIME no credibility, first of all. It seems to me that, FINALLY....., someone is listening to Einstein’s definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. All this jawboning from former diplomats is proof enough for me that Tillerson might be on the right track. The “bureaucracy” of the State Department - made even worse by Kerry and Clinton - needs to be turned upside down and destroyed, replaced by a working model. That will take some time and I’m willing to wait.
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