[AFPhys]

Many of those "wimpy bureaucrats" you are proposing to "slap around" have been in the State Department for many, many years. They've been through numerous changes in Sec.State, and are very entrenched. Your proposed disciplinary measures would be far tougher to enact than you probably imagine.

[Fledermaus]

Oh, I hear you...but I'd take a baseball bat to most of them.

Just fire them all. Then let them sue for their jobs back. Let them whine. Let them go to Congress.

Just fire them and lock the buildings! Bring back all the staff around the world and fire them too!

I'm not patient anymore after 9/11...I'm sick of this crap!

I won't get anywhere, but I don't care. I'll write, call, harass...