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State Department follies.(National Security)(Brief Article)

The American Enterprise

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Newt Gingrich, "Rogue State Department" in Foreign Policy, July/August 2003 (foreignpolicy.org)

Does the State Department really have Americans best interests at heart? AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich doesn't think so. According to Gingrich, the department has been hugely resistant to reform and, despite efforts to the contrary, makes policy mostly at the behest of career foreign service officers rather than following the directives of the President and Congress. In order to fix this, Gingrich argues that the State Department "needs to experience a culture shock, a top-to-bottom transformation that will make it a more effective communicator of U.S. values around the world."

To this end, Gingrich proposes ...

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