US - "bastardization" at the State Department

A former Chief of Staff at the US State Department under Colin Powell, Larry Wilkerson, has gone public with his views on why it's all going badly, foreign policy wise. It's that Rumsfeld-Cheney axis that's to blame, apparently. While not criticising the President or Republican ideology there is plenty of flak for the guilty men who subverted the normal decision making process on National Security issues. Anyone who remembers another former Marine Corps officer at the State Department during a previous war, who was very handy with a photocopier, (Daniel Ellsberg) will wonder if Wilkerson has more to say and if this is just an opening shot more from the Washington Post... A transcript of his speech reveals some amusing comments on the personalities involved but it's the structure of government, it's checks and balances, that seem to be his main concern more from the New America Foundation... Also, the fact that Rumsfeld and Cheney are from the business world seems to him significant - that the bottem line is not the bottom line when lives are at stake.