Joshua Rosenblum’s Reviews > State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department (Hoover Institution Press Publication) > Status Update

The Foreign Service culture has a different ethos, one much less responsive to the policy choices of the country’s political leadership. It was most visible during the Iraq war, when diplomats spoke openly of their hostility to the president proceeding without a United Nations Security Council mandate and when the department had difficulty filling posts in Iraq. But diplomats’ opinion that they are protecting America