The key difference is that the Obama administration was working on staffing the state department (a difficult task to be sure), whereas it's become clear that t

The key difference is that the Obama administration was working on staffing the state department (a difficult task to be sure), whereas it's become clear that the Trump administration and Rex Tillerson are doing the opposite, focusing on cuts and issuing a hiring freeze instead. Tillerson has also proposed a 31 per cent cut to the department’s budget and an 8 per cent staff cut. So the context you provide requires it's own context. All of which does not speak to the volatile situation of the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world making improvised foreign policy declarations over twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/magazine/rex-tillerson-and-the-unraveling-of-the-state-department.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/magazine/rex-tillerson-an...