Let's go a step further. The Department of State should become a much smaller agency within the Department of Defense. Perhaps one Ambassador per country (some nations have an ambassador represent them in more than one country), just enough staff to handle visas and related issues, and enough armed military personnel to secure the embassies and consulates.
If we're going to have an embassy or consulate in a place like Libya or Venezuela, there better be enough military stationed there to successfully launch a coup on a hostile government if attacked. Preferably, we have no diplomatic presence in regimes that are hostile to us. They're our enemies. Let them deal with our military if they decide to pick a fight.
The civil service aspect needs to be gone. If there isn't military experience, they should be disqualified from working for the State Department.
Let's also require every damn Ambassador to (a) have at least a B-2 proficiency in the language spoken in the country and (b) have extensive on-the-ground experience in that country before becoming ambassador.
The Ivy League sh#theads that infest the State Department work around the clock to undermine U.S. national security interests, spurning our allies, and performing Lewinskys on our enemies. It's time for that to end.
Diplomacy and military are two different things.
If a government operates on a sem-legitimate basis at least, there’s problem. Those two things should naturally be separate.
But...
the government picks which nations get a full embassy, which get a diplomatic “outpost”, and which get no diplomats.
In order to have trade relations, cultural relations, etc., nations need to have diplomatic ties established.
Having a military-only presence is reserved for nations that are trouble spots, countries that are basically hostile. They don’t get no diplomatic mission.
Trouble is with Libya, all the stuff that was not reported by the news media.
So we think that Libya and Qadaffi was always a virulent anti-American hater.
Turns out, he was an old CIA employee, and he was well-accepted by the American old-money, elite finance, “eastern establishment”, etc., those Yale/Wall Street types, whose employers decide if and when there will be wars.
Turns out, when, let’s call him Q, decided that he wanted Libya out from under the central banking/dollar system, when it kept pushing the point, he had decided to make his own currency - actually - horrors - a regional African currency/banking regime... that’s when the financial elites ordered his rubout. Former employee needed to be wacked. And this was to include a message to all national leaders: this is what happens to our local bosses when they go against the family. When they start thinking they’re gonna make their own money. Everybody better get it: your using dollars ONLY, and you’re BUYING US government bonds, or other US government backed securities. You’re all part of the syndicate, you’re all gonna work with OUR money and OUR debt.
Anyone gets any ideas, they’re gettin’ what Q got. Got it ?