a klog apart

In a klog apart, Phil Wolff mentions that...

"...former Congressman Newt Gingrich calls for reinventing the State Department.

"Anti-American sentiment is rising unabated around the globe because the U.S. State Department has abdicated values and principles in favor of accommodation and passivity. Only a top-to-bottom reform and culture shock will enable the State Department to effectively spread U.S. values and carry out President George W. Bush's foreign policy."

Concerns about Dubya's foreign policy aside, if I've seen anything like "accommodation and passivity" shown by State, it has not been in the direction of any foreign entity, but rather in it's deference to Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and to ill-advised cowboy policy.