I agree. I worked for both Amb Patterson and Amb Crocker. While Patterson has strong connections with Hilabeast (I believe they went to school together), and is not of the same metal as Crocker, she is not an unreasonable diplomat. She was dealt a very, very bad hand with no room to maneuver; certainly not with the current administration and the current and former Secretaries of State.
All things considered, she is the wrong person for the job. But so is Kerry, and so is Barky.
The fact a woman was sent to an unstable fundamentalist Arab government as Ambassador means the senders were piss poor diplomats. She is an affront.
Don’t go all PC and claim EOE. That is not the way of all the world. She should be knitting in Georgetown
And who would be the right person for the job?