![]() ![]() (In this, he notes, the Obama administration is not blameless.) Farrow profiles many men and women who have spent time in Foggy Bottom, the headquarters of a State Department that has been all but emptied. Bush administration has been militarized. “Diplomats perform many essential functions-” writes New Yorker contributor Farrow, perhaps best known for breaking the story of film executive Harvey Weinstein’s long pattern of sexual depredations, “spiriting Americans out of crises, holding together developing economies, hammering out deals between governments.” In the absence of diplomacy, the most likely alternative is war, and by the author’s account, the tendency of American foreign policy since the George W. Guess which one the current administration favors? Nations deal with each other through trade and diplomacy-or war. ![]()
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