Posted by
Mike Sharq on Friday, January 26, 2007 8:10:35 AM
Since the 1930s, the Department of State has become a government within a government and a department that serves the left by manipulating the Fourth Estate through ‘leaks.’ Does the name Harry Hopkins ring a bell?...probably not if you went to a government run school in the last two and one half generations. If one wants to know, what is the Fourth Estate? Don’t look to Wikapedia since it returns a blank page. Interesting!
Perhaps you’ve heard of Richard Armitage, who is one of the last in a line of dupes to be corrupted by the culture within the Department of State. He was almost in the news a while back. Maybe you’ve heard of Lord Thomas MacAulay who wrote on the eve of our Great Civil War (war between the states) “…your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth;—with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.” Maybe like the State Department.
Nowhere in the labyrinthine structure of our federal government will one find a more entrenched, self serving, left leaning bureaucracy than at State. This is especially true of the ill named Foreign Service. The Foreign Service mentality is so like the top level of the Former Soviet Union that the comparison actually frightens me a bit. Orwell could have used them, down on the farm, as role models for those more equal than others.
If I were brainwashed by the PC drive by media, I would probably insert a qualifier here, something like…I know that there are some good, dedicated people at State/FS but…Well my comment to you FSers, all of you, is this: Get your house in order! Expose every individual in your organization that would give aid and comfort to enemies of liberty and freedom. Your cushy life style is being paid for by today’s taxpayers and bygone generation’s blood.”
Now, to make such bold statements, it has been my experience that credentials are required. Here are mine. I lived and worked 12 of the past 27 years in the Middle East. I advised a few Congressmen and Senators on Middle East policy. I politely proselytized for my Faith and promoted my countries traditional values while doing my very best to respect my host countries laws and customs. (Very unlike most of the DOS/FS personnel that I’ve known) I made good friends among the mostly Muslim nationals with whom I worked. All the while, helping my company, the evil (name redacted), earn reasonable profits on shareholder’s investment.
In 1983, I had the pleasure of meeting someone at the Dharhan, KSA Consulate who did give service to a few US Nationals. His name is Gunnery Sergeant (Name Redacted) and he got me a cold beer from the guard detail’s stash. After a 5 month drought, well I think you understand my affection for the Gunny. I do hope his mind wasn’t corrupted by the mindless he guarded.