11-17-2016, 07:12 PM
(11-17-2016, 06:32 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Ummm, being a career staffer means you aren't "picked" by any politician. The stakes are higher, the issues more complex, and the experience/knowledge of the politician usually comparatively much lower. This is the difference you can't grasp, and how foreign policy ends up being 1) a continuation and 2) effectively dictated by career staffers.....vs, say, HUD.
And with respect to foreign policy, we aren't talking a few "career staffers" but a ginormous bureacracy of the military complex, FBI, CIA, NSA and other organizations. A POTUS is not making any significant/major course corrections - it's the height of arrogance to think you know better than the combined institutional knowledge of millions of people over decades. It's why our policy evolves, for the most part, over decades and not with every Presidential election. And that's a good thing.
Again, my apologies for forgetting many people struggle to grasp what's actually being said and why.
To quote you, none of them vote.
Bless your little heart, but the FBI, CIA, and NSA Directors and General grade military officers are all appointed/nominated by the President.
George W. Bush and the staffers he appointed "sold" the world on invading Iraq. You don't think that was a "significant" course correction?
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