Foreign Service Workers

Career diplomats versus political appointees. In my opinion, in foreign service work, there should be no political appointees. That just shows favoritism and that high government positions can be bought by the rich through donations to presidential campaigns. I feel that ambassadors should not be selected by the president from an outside source, but should be selected by working at that post for an extended period of time. The ambassador should hold his or her post for more than the four to eight years a president is in office. This way, a stronger relationship can be built between the ambassador and the country he or she is working in. In leadership, power should be earned and respected through devotion, time, and experience, not money, contacts, and owed favors. The ambassador for the United States of America represents the people of the United States as a whole to the people of the country he or she is located in. Do we want some self-absorbed CEO or a lazy individual born into money to be the symbol of American? I don't think so. We need someone who worked from the bottom of the State Department all the way up. We need someone who has devoted their career and life to serving the American people.