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The Importance of Diplomacy

A lot of diplomacy is maintenance. It's just sort of like all of us making sure things in our house are not broken. If you see it as something where you make deals, otherwise you don't talk, you're missing the whole point of being Secretary of State. When Mitt Romney was under consideration, we know that Donald Trump, who likes to cast his cabinet like a television show, we know this. He thought Mitt Romney looked like a Secretary of State and part of why he liked him. Rex Tillerson right now doesn't act as a face. He doesn't meet with foreign leaders in South Korea. This very weird moment where they said he couldn't do it because he was too

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