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elleng

(130,641 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 03:29 PM Mar 2018

Trump May Make America Miss Rex Tillerson. Imagine THAT!

Recall what we thought, when he was first considered and then nominated?

'If Rex Tillerson had ended his professional career as chief executive officer of ExxonMobil, his reputation would have been that of a successful leader of one of the world’s largest companies and a devoted supporter of the Boy Scouts.

Instead he will be remembered as one of the country’s weakest and least effective secretaries of state. With no experience in foreign policy or government, he provided little leadership and eviscerated the department he was chosen to lead, enthusiastically carrying out the budget-cutting orders of a hot-headed president uninterested in diplomacy. Scores of senior diplomats and other professionals, the core of America’s foreign service, were either forced out or chose to flee.

And yet we have cause to regret his departure, because his replacement is likely to be worse.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/opinion/trump-rex-tillerson-ousted.html?

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