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BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
6. With stories like this one and
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 06:59 AM
Dec 2019

like the article below about the US State Department today, I truly fear that we will never - ever - regain the prestige and credibility that we earned following WWII.

Foreign Service Official Says It Will Take a ‘Generation to Rebuild’ the State Department After Trump https://www.politicalflare.com/2019/12/foreign-service-official-says-it-will-take-a-generation-to-rebuild-the-state-department-after-trump/

This is primarily due to #45. Although Bush II caused things to unravel badly, the dedicated work of Barack Obama as President and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry in their respective terms as Secretary of State had begun to make people around the globe believe in us again.

No longer.

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