The sooner that organization is burned to the ground, the better in my opinion.
NO ONE is listing to Drake....... NO ONE!
I have had some good experiences with State Dept. people. But they were all low-level people at embassies, helping to straighten out some mess for a relative who was in that country.
It was out of fresh ideas in 1989, even before the impending fall of the Soviet Union, the fate of which would have been foretold by any good intelligence agent, except by that time in the world's history we had none. It's the same problem today. Not missing for a minute Putin's ambitions, the country is backward, bankrupt and makes no product anyone participating in a free market would choose to purchase. The economy is largely sustained by commodities for which their is a well-established international market with well-known international prices.
NATO is a self-perpetuating bureaucracy. First and foremost the member ‘employees’ want to keep living life large on other peoples (our) money. Anything else is accidental.
The State Department has been the HQ of the globalist effort to steal the country from the citizens.
What a great article! Thanks for posting.
I too have had only limited interactions with the State Department. I also have had that bad taste in my mouth.
Who is “Drake?”
Ten years after my Army Retirement, I became a member of the vaunted Foreign Service. The applicant and interview process is rigorous, ensuring that “the smartest person in the room” is hired. The problem with hiring college grads who were always “the smartest person in the room” is that once the room is full of them it becomes a nasty everyone of them self environment of backstabbing colleagues, theft, and collusion of unsavory groups of like minded liars and dysfunctional individuals shrouded in the all the code speak of the DNC. Add in a covert 13-15% CIA presence and you have yet another layer of bullshit going on at State, and missions abroad. Political appointees, Obama and Hillary Worshipers abounded during those times, and an opposition to Republican leadership going well past munity openly with management. Then there is the issue of not only political appointee Ambassadors, but even intelligence officers serving at the highest levels in every part of State.
Having a liberal anti-republican organization like State needs to be cleansed and because foreign service officers are Commissioned Officers just like in the military, they must be held to the same standard of “duty, honor, Country, loyalty, conduct) as the military and the FBI. Too many folks at State have no understanding of the responsibilities of being Commissioned Officers and act just as if they were still at colleges as protesters or professors.
My wife is still at State. She is a logical woman. She has problems with many of the people there and daily sees the dysfunctional workforce. I wish she were closer to retirement but you work where you need to retire if you are so lucky. She followed me 18 years overseas as a mother and employee of State and the Army, and she lost four years of employment due to being “when actually employed” which is a travesty of injustice considering you work side-by-side with the spooks, State, US AID, and every other agency.
The person who said folks at State are basically “brats” nailed it because these folks fell special and entitled.
Very good article.
The State Department has been a center of political Left power for 70 years.
This is excellent news.