State is 1% of the Federal budget.
The job of these people is essentially to prevent war and abet intelligence gathering efforts.
I disagree with gutting State just because they are largely but not wholly Democrat-leaning.
There are LOTS of conservatives at State. There are lots of Dems who, like everyone else, do what the President and Sec State says.
Kerry and Obama were the saboteurs, not everyone who worked for him.
You’ve got to be kidding. If the job of the state department is to prevent War it’s a miserable failure.
It’s absolutely full of treason and should be gutted like a fish.
You are 100% correct, sir!
I’ve been in the dining hall next to these people and listened to their conversations. They hate America and all things that identify as the, Right.
There are a handful of Conservatives, a small handful, at State and they are grossly outnumbered by the radical Leftists that roam the halls of Foggy Bottom and enbassies around the world. And many of those on the Right tend to be the Diplomatic Security folks, who are the red headed step children of that agency.
While I’m no fan of Bush, the more I learn about him, Rice had to come to Baghdad more than once to find out why no one was working. They had tenure, couldn’t be fired and hated all things, Bush. They were Islamic apologists from the word go and blamed all the violence on the military and security guys protecting them.
During the Cold War, US State was the most heavily infiltrated part of the Federal Government.
Their current personnel and doctrine are a legacy of this.
The whole thing should go.