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Old 08-19-2018, 06:43   #28
lindy
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Originally Posted by WarriorDiplomat View Post
... anyone who served Obama willingly IMO is compromised idealistically and worse yet not necessarily as qualified as they should be because in Obama administration it appears loyalty to country was not near as important as loyalty and shared vision with an Obama America
There is a large number of people in the IC that consider those two positions the same. There are still many patriots too but something must happen when career employees get elevated to the executive service: they lose sense of WHO we serve and apparently care more about leaving their mark on the org.

After 8 years of BHO, we, in general, act like an abused child after to do anything unless we do it together (via working groups) in order to avoid responsibility for decision making and blame it on “bureaucracy”.

Folks who advocate for “speed, surprise, and violence of action” are quickly sidelined as cowboys.
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