Reinventing the State Department.

Once upon a time, diplomacy was a powerful political tool for assisting and complementing military solutions towards complex problems.

Now it has become a joke of endless dialogues and peacemongering at the cost of all other steps that need to be taken to resolve the problem.

The issue here is not destroying or eliminating the State Department, but reorienting its mission, optimizing existing tools towards the foreign policy goals of the administration, getting rid of the people who are disruptive to those goals, and hiring people who will be helpful towards the implementation.

But the status quo cannot continue. The military can only advice as to the military objectives and strategies towards achieving those. They are not a substitute for political decisions.