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Originally Posted by editec  If the office supply lobby was as powerful as the military industrial complex lobby...
...THEN the State Department would get some respect in Congress and plenty of funding for those administrative needs, too. | MAYBE...JUST MAYBE....if the State department and diplomatic corps of the US was as halfway effective as the US military then they would get not only respect and funding but shiny bits of ribbon to pin on their collective chests too.
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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee |