Tom Rogan is a foreign policy/national security writer for the Washington Examiner. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in War Studies from King's College London, a Master of Science in Middle East politics from SOAS, and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law, London.
The State Department's private dissent cable is valuable. It allows employees to express countervailing views over diplomatic strategy and policy.
It is not valuable, however, when State Department employees are encouraged to believe that they are individual secretaries of state. And as the war between Israel and Hamas continues, that's what appears to be happening at State Department headquarters in Washington.As Politico reports, numerous State Department employees have signed a dissent memo that"has two key requests: that the U.S.
Again, the problem here is not that some State Department employees disagree with the Biden administration's policy. In the civilian policy world, the ability to air private dissent is good for morale and the development of effective strategy. Instead, the problem here is that too many at the State Department appear to believe that their individual viewpoints should compete for priority with the government's policy.U.S.
In contrast, by making such repeated public shows of their disagreements with government policy — Politico didn't get this memo out of thin air, after all — some State Department employees are failing in their duty. Their very public dissent is incompatible with the public interest in effective government. Indeed, their action is a slippery slope to increasingly ineffective government.
Blinken should make clear that while he welcomes private disagreement, the responsibility of department employees is to avoid public performances in favor of doing their jobs.
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