I read this article today on Yahoo news about President Obama's desire to put more emphasis on diplomacy than on defense. Good... Hopefully Congress will agree, otherwise there will not be sufficient money to do the job.
This was a most interesting sentence,
"The military has more band members than the State Department has diplomats. Or as Defense Secretary Robert Gates has noted, the 6,600 people in the foreign service equal roughly the number of personnel aboard a single U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group at sea."
Perhaps this will translate into better working conditions for State Dept. employees. That would be great!
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