Boomers that never grew up are now running the asylum.
Or put another way, America is losing commonality of thought and values. The population is fragmenting in their views and ideology, spinning off in different directions. It means that policy will wind up being based on ever-changing PC requirements or ideologies, or on the whims of America's oligarchs for pure profit.
Yep. The ones who had any sense or grew up are on here and prepping.
That's part of it, but the fact that the State Department plainly has had no competent orientalists on the Middle East desk since at least the administration of Bush the Younger started the disaster. How do I know they didn't have any? If they had, someone would have warned that the invasion of Iraq was ripping the bandage off the Sunni-Shia fault line and that measures would needed to deal with this. If someone had given that warning and been ignored, they would have, by now, written a tell-all memoir. No such book has appeared, ergo, there was not a competent orientalist at State.
Disarray is too mild of a word.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!