Our military FReepers maybe can weigh in on whether they want to have to keep an eye on civilian "cultural specialists" at the same time the soldiers or marines are trying to defeat enemy combatants.
Commissars...or at least Zampolits...
I’ll answer, but first I have to check with the political officer.
As a retired military I can easily see that Obama is so naive as to be a threat to our safety. It would seriously undermine the military mission to have a bunch of State Department lackeys tagging along and getting in the way. Given the political nature of the State Department it would also be like taking a Fifth Column into battle with you so they could actively undermine the mission and endanger the troops!
Obama is either a fool or a naive idiot!