It is overall a legitimate question. Romney isn’t best suited for State. He doesn’t have a huge history of travelling the world.
I know something of State and I can assure you all the starting point needed to reform the place is to change recruiting tests and screens. The screens bring in a certain kind of person and that kind of person tends to be English Lit majors or Sociology types.
The screens seek to emphasize compromise and “cultural immersion” and damn near nothing at all about “US NATIONAL INTERESTS”. They recruit people from day one who want 90% to understand the other guy and 10% to advance their own cause.
Romney lived out of the country on his Mormon mission, but there must be a zillion senior executives at corporations who rose in their company by running overseas operations in various places.
Can’t see why the choices would be so few.