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The State Department has a disastrous manpower shortage

By Washington Examiner
Published April 22, 2018 4:00am ET
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The State Department has a disastrous manpower shortage
File - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Leaderless and without navigators to direct it, the ship of American diplomacy is adrift in the fog.

But while the Senate deserves criticism for not yet approving CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as America’s chief diplomat, that’s far from the only malady afflicting the Department of State.

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