The New State Department

For those interested in the future of the State Department, you might check out Sidney Blumenthal's review of the situation at Salon. He sees it, in part, as a rejection of the foreign policy of Bush the elder. I suspect there's also an element of basic distrust of the State Department on behalf of the Neo Conservatives. The State Department exists to find diplomatic solutions to problems, but diplomatic solutions to problems are not necessarily what this administration wants.