Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last a generation.
In-depth article. I guess I can stop feeling sorry for him now.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/13/16029526/rex-tillerson-fired-state-department
Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation.”
Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum.
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Mar 13, 2018, 8:54am EDT
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Donald Trump, according to White House officials’ statements on Tuesday morning.
He was in office for a little over a year, one of the shortest tenures in modern history — and it was not, experts say, a distinguished one.
“Tillerson would be at or near the bottom of the list of secretaries of state, not just in the post-Second World War world but in the record of US secretaries of state,” says Paul Musgrave, a scholar of US foreign policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Perhaps if Tillerson had developed closer relationships with State’s career staff, he would have understood that supporting budget cuts to his own department and downsizing staff would demoralize them. Perhaps he would have been able to develop new ideas that would have gotten the president’s ear. Perhaps he would have been more able to convince the White House to trust his judgment on political appointees.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. But the truth is we won’t know because Tillerson, to a degree nearly unprecedented in State’s history, failed to even try to work with his own department.
All of which invites the question: Why did this multimillionaire leave his cushy job at the head of one of the world’s largest corporations and then take a job at a government bureaucracy he didn’t understand and seemingly didn’t respect?
It’s a question only Tillerson can answer. And right now, it doesn’t seem like he’s in the mood for a lot of talking.
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Trump wants yes men and ass kissers, and Mike Pompeo is one of the biggest of them all! 
It's easy to spend years bashing and degrading government and government employees because "their" damn taxes and "their" damn environmental laws get in the way of maximizing your profits.
Then you take a job working for a moron in government and find out that international diplomacy is much, much harder than maximizing oil profits for a giant company that somebody else built.
