I didn’t seek this job... My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”Well, that sure is stirring, no doubt music to the ears of State Department lifers. “When [Trump] asked me ... to be Secretary of State,” Tillerson told McPike, “I was stunned.”Hey, at least now everyone at State has something in common. State Department staff, recently depicted by the Atlantic’s Julia Ioffe as moping about their Harry S Truman building headquarters, have been hoping for some kind of direction, searching for their lost sense of purpose. By supporting these changes, and tacitly allowing morale to sag among his staff, Tillerson may be participating in his own undoing. Next up: freaking out American allies by skipping an annual gathering of NATO foreign ministers to ― what else?

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2017 22:06 UTC