The hardest job in America

[brokephibroke]

Will be the next secy of state who will have to rebuild our standing as a nation. He/she will need a solid diplomatic core to help.

[AJT]

1. It seems many of the most experienced people have left the state department.

You can't magically get experience. It's going to be tough to recover from this president.

[madaboutharry]

2. The job of Sec. of State will have the extra burden

of rebuilding the relationships with our allies that Trump and his band of lunatics destroyed.

[Demovictory9]

3. so many areas of the govt will need to be rebuilt

[brokephibroke]

5. Except of course for the beautiful infrastructure

That trump gloriously rebuilt.

[monmouth4]

4. I think those countries we deal with know they were dealing with an insane person and after we show

them we are back on track, it won't be an impossible mission. We were greatly respected at one time, these are all mature people and I'm sure trust will be restored. I pray for that.

[Hoyt]

6. It'll help to have a trustworthy Prez.

[brokephibroke]

7. That's a given.

[Yavin4]

8. If a Dem wins the presidency, they should enlist President Obama to be SOS if only for a brief

period of time. That would immediately build credibility across the globe.

[Leith]

9. That's a VERY good idea!

He and HRC should team up. US allies like her, too.

[brokephibroke]

10. Agree

No one would be better.

[hedda_foil]

12. Wonderful idea!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. My fear is the good ones won't ever come back.

Read recently that something on the order of 75% of our experienced diplomatic corps has been either fired, retired, or forced out of their positions during Trump's reign. That means tremendous amounts of wisdom has been lost, built by virtue of hundreds of man/woman-years on the job that we probably won't get back.

If I was a diplomat stationed in a foreign land say for 20 years and got sent home due to a shift in political winds, I would likely never consider going back to that job because I could get send home again in four years.

If we don't have that diplomatic wisdom in place around the globe, America will get screwed a hundred times on a daily basis by evil characters looking to damage us or just make a buck.

This is the sort of damage Republican slash-and-burn tactics is doing to our nation.......