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I'm inclined to agree, although "trial balloon" is a little more polite. It would be interesting to see the Dems make a big deal out of his handling of classified information in the confirmation hearings, though, in the face of their resolute coverup of much, much worse with regard to Hillary Clinton. That's the other edge of that two-edged sword.
What I'd like to see at State is a head-chopper. I think that a purge of that entire department is long overdue and that too many people there have been too unaccountable for far too long. Foreign policy is, at the moment, a product of idiot Democrat ideologues and bribe-takers put in place by globalist zealots who care more for the fictive Greater Good than the interests of their country. For an example I offer up the truly bizarre sequence of events in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria in the year 2011, packaged like a bag of dog poo with a ribbon around the top as the Arab Spring. Now we have ISIS running rampant and Turkey and Russia squaring off over Syria in what looks to be the 13th Russo-Turkish War. (History trivia: the first Russo-Turkish War was in 1568. They'be been at this a long time and the strategic issues haven't changed).
It is rather astonishing that no one in the sitting administration has been able to articulate who we're actually allied with and what our aims are. Contrast the media treatment of this with that of the Vietnam War and see how far the media have degenerated, but that's another conversation. I mean literally, of 100 people stopped in the street and asked what we're doing in the Middle East at the moment, does anyone imagine we'd get a single cogent answer? A thousand? Ten thousand?
This is a drastic failure of policy and communication and it needs to change, and it will not change with the same team in place that presided over the mess to begin with.