The Serious Foreign Policy Thread--Bolton Cleans House

[Dill]

(03-14-2018, 10:43 AM)GMDino Wrote:
Yet she had more experience than Tillerson.  

But Tillerson wasn't a yes man so he goes.

She had more experience in government.

But I am not sure she had more foreign policy experience. Tillerson was always negotiating with governments--Russia, Niger, Iraq--not to mention US foreign policy, just to manage Exxon interests and assets abroad.

He was not a diplomat though, did not know how to build relationships with other departments in the exec or with the people below him.  He did see the problems/complications/consequences of Trump excess though.  He was reportedly on an apology tour of "s***hole countries" when fired--countries and people whose help we may need someday.