WASHINGTON — Foreign Affairs Do We Actually Need Ambassadors? Critics of Trump’s diplomatic staffing don’t address why it’s important to have a top man on the ground in the Zoom era. During my more than two decades at the State Department as a diplomat, my well-meaning mother often asked what I’d have to do to make ambassador.
The answer was simple: Dad would have to die young, and Mom would then have to donate the whole estate to the winner of the next presidential election. Then I’d get appointed ambassador to a small, unimportant country. For so many reasons, I am glad Dad lived to a ripe old age, and that Mom looks forward to taking care of the Humane Society in her will instead.
I would have made a terrible ambassador. Since 1960, 72 percent of America’s
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