I have one question for all these lifers at the State Department: Just what are all those great diplomatic victories of State Department diplomacy in the last fifty years?
Peace, anywhere, in the Middle East?
Peace, on the Korean peninsula?
Peace in Africa?
Real true end to Pakistan-India conflict?
End of Middle-East Sunni-Shia proxy wars.
End of Russian bullying in Europe?
End of China’s bullying in Asia?
End of tribal conflicts in Africa?
End of Cuban communist meddling in Central and South America?
Just what have the State Department’s fantastic diplomacy made such victories with?
Exactly. Based on their criteria, we need an Ambassador to Chicago.