Diplomat rips Tillerson, Trump administration in resignation letter

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Source: The Hill

A U.S. Foreign Service officer slammed the Trump administration and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a letter announcing her departure from the State Department.

In the letter, which was first reported by Foreign Policy, Elizabeth Shackelford criticized the administration for the “stinging disrespect” she argues it shows the diplomatic corps.

“I have deep respect for the career Foreign and Civil Service staff who, despite the stinging disrespect this Administration has shown our profession, continue the struggle to keep our foreign policy on the positive trajectory necessary to avert global disaster in increasingly dangerous times,” Shackelford writes.

“With each passing day, however, this task grows more futile, driving the Department’s experienced and talented staff away in ever greater numbers,” Shackelford added.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364180-diplomat-rips-tillerson-trump-administration-in-resignation-letter

[sandensea]

1. Some of this is to placate Putin - but a lot of it is longstanding GOP hatred of the State Dept

Since World War II, they've tried to undermine State because they've never believed in it - or, in many cases, that it should even exist.

Those that would keep it in existence, prefer that it be an arm of the Pentagon, and little else.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. It's the paranoid automatic isolationism the John Birchers & their ilk have always retreated to

It goes back before the John Birchers, of course. And the hard core Trumpanzees are the main proponents these days.

In its more generalized form, it is somewhat softer and less extreme but as you say it is part of the GOP philosophy, more or less.

[sandensea]

5. Well said.

Most people don't know of or remember them anymore; but since St. Ronnie JBS has practically reshaped the GOP - and to a large extent U.S. public policy itself (especially under this Cheeto regime).

[SergeStorms]

8. I once thought they were defunct....

until I saw billboards in south-central Florida about 15 years ago, signed by the John Birch Society. I had just moved to Sebring, Florida thinking it was such a lovely, quiet place, and to be near my 85 yr. old mother. I was spending more time flying back and forth to Florida, with her myriad illnesses, than I was at home anyway.

I lived there three years, and moved - screaming - back to New York, as fast as I could. I can handle snow and cold much easier than 100 degrees and 100% humidity in the summer months (which is 8 months out of the year there), and living among some of the most hateful, racist people on the planet. Mom ended up moving back north as well, and she's STILL ALIVE TODAY! Northern weather makes for hale and hearty people. Incessant heat makes people freaking crazy.

The John fucking Birch Society.

[Mopar151]

6. The Dulles Brothers

As close as America has come to royalty, and as evil as you could imagine - particularly Allen. Read "The Devil's Chessboard" to meet one of the great monsters of the 20th century.

[tomp]

10. It would be hard to argue allen was more evil than john foster.

Let's call it a tie. And anyone who doesn't know about them doesn't know shit about the u.s after ww2.

[msongs]

2. trump will happy to see her go n wishes more would leave. then he can

lv the job open or replace with fascist comrade

[Irish_Dem]

3. He'll get rid of everything but the military and tax collectors. nt

[burrowowl]

7. Yes, that about sums it up!

[AJT]

9. The Objectavist's wet dream.

[Judi Lynn]

11. I humbly recommend you follow me out the door: Star diplomat quits State Dept with blistering lett

‘I humbly recommend you follow me out the door’: Star diplomat quits State Dept with blistering letter to Tillerson
TOM BOGGIONI
10 DEC 2017 AT 11:51 ET

A rising star in the U.S. State Department has quit after delivering a blistering letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, excoriating him for destroying the work they have done and damaging the reputation of the country across the world.

According to Yahoo News, Elizabeth Shackelford, who served as a political officer based in Nairobi for the U.S. mission to Somalia, was scathing in her appraisal of the department under Tillerson.

“The cost of this is visible every day in Mission Somalia, my current post, where State’s diplomatic influence, on the country and within our own interagency, is waning,” Shackelford wrote in the letter obtained by Foreign Policy.

According to Shackelford, who also lamented the departure of other career diplomats, if Tillerson is unable “to stem the bleeding by showing leadership and a commitment to our people, our mission, and our mandate as the foreign policy arm of the United States … I would humbly recommend you follow me out the door.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/i-humbly-recommend-you-follow-me-out-the-door-star-diplomat-quits-state-dept-with-blistering-letter-to-tillerson/

[Mustellus]

12. But its well known that a good substitute for diplomacy....

... is the dead bodies of our military