Foreign Affairs Panel Calls For Overhaul of State Dept.
9th December 2007
The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges, a majority in a congressionally mandated bipartisan commission will recommend tomorrow.
The mind boggles to contemplate what a “super-size agency” (in comparison to the current State Department) would look like. Last time I looked, the State Department wasn’t what you’d call small.
The dissenters instead urged elevating foreign assistance and international development to a new Cabinet-level agency, according to a copy of the commission’s final report.
I’m waiting for the Mohair Subsidy folks to have their own Cabinet-level agency. It seems only fair.
No hint of any suggestion as to how to make sure that the State Department, super-sized or not, contains at least a majority of people who, you know, actually put the interests of the American people ahead of those of foreigners, which would appear to be the real problem with the State Department.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:30
Don’t forget that all this delightful newness requires large increases in spending and patronage.