WASHINGTON - Saying he could no longer be"complicit" in the Trump administration, Mr Chuck Park, an eight-year State Department veteran most recently posted to a US consulate in Mexico, last week became the latest American diplomat to publicly and pointedly call it quits.
But morale is sinking amid signs that American foreign policy is now being dictated unchecked by a shoot-from-the-hip president and executed by a Secretary of State with the political savvy to actually implement those controversial policies. Mr Pompeo will not attend this week's Group of 7 meeting of the world's top advanced democracies, leaving it to President Donald Trump - who last year stormed away from the summit and refused to sign a final document, the first time that has happened.
In an interview, she added,"We have lost decades of expertise vital to our national interests ... and we are stepping back a degree from the international engagement of the last 75 years that shaped" the world order. Another diplomat told the Los Angeles Times this week he was quitting in part because Mr Pompeo's State Department seemed to have little use for input from its experienced foreign service officers.
Speaking this week to the United Nations Security Council in New York, Mr Pompeo defended the administration's conduct of foreign policy, saying it was"reviving" America's leadership role by joining multilateral efforts that are"meaningful,""effective" and"reflect the values of freedom-loving societies," such as the battle against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria terrorism.
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