The State Department is out of control. Plain and simple. The Clintonistas run the show at Foggy Bottom, and they want nothing more than to be sure that our efforts in Iraq fail. They are succeeding.
State needs to be disbanded along with the UN. Let our foreign policy be run by the DoD.
The sad thing is that STATE has been like this for decades. There was a brief reprieve under Secretary of State Schultz in the 80s, but that's it.
Read "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle. They give some good ideas to reform STATE.