““The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, and you simply cannot be effective if you don’t have assistant secretaries and ambassadors in place,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat who was an under secretary of state for President George W. Bush. “It shows a disdain for diplomacy.””
It shows disdain for diplomacy, or more correctly disdain for Marxists posing as “diplomats!”
“The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, . . .”
A major problem that Tillerson and Trump are hopefully addressing. Time to heed the warnings of our founding fathers:
George Washington- “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
Thomas Jefferson- “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.”
The founding fathers knew political alliances with foreign nations would drag the US into foreign wars and cost the nation dearly in blood and money. As the Swiss have proven for centuries, neutrality, a strong currency, and a strong defense are the best policy in dealing with the rest of the world. Our constant meddling in the affairs of other nation during the 20th and 21st centuries has bankrupted the federal government, resulted in the death and maiming of hundreds of thousands of citizens, and earned us the hatred of people around the globe.
Decades of diplomacy and military adventures in the Middle East have definitely not made the homeland safer. If anything they have brought terrorism to the homeland and the loss of freedom at the hands of an increasingly oppressive and militaristic central government.