Why Does America Send So Many Stupid, Unqualified Hacks Overseas ?
▻http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/us-ambassador-picks-103242.html
Sur ces ambassadeurs états-uniens qui achètent leur place à travers le financement des campagnes électorales, (une vieille coutume d’après Chas Freeman $$$, et qui a augmenté sous Obama, malgré, une fois de plus, ses promesses du contraire.)
The United States is the only industrialized country to award diplomatic posts as political spoils, often to wealthy campaign contributors in an outmoded system that rivals the patronage practices of banana republics, dictatorships and two-bit monarchies.
C’est par ailleurs une pratique que l’on ne retrouve plus pour les nominations dans l’armée,
A similar system once allowed political allies to become military officers, but Congress outlawed the practice after the Civil War, during which the public recoiled at the needless slaughter brought on by incompetent cronies who had been appointed generals (men like Daniel Sickles, whose insubordination at Gettysburg caused more than 4,000 Union casualties).
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▻http://www.mepc.org/articles-commentary/speeches/nobodys-century-american-prospect-post-imperial-times)
Comme le « New York Herald Tribune » l’a dit en 1857 : « La diplomatie est l’égout à travers lequel s’écoulent l’écume et les immondices de la flaque politique. »