The United States should at least triple the salaries of senior State Department officials. The current level of compensation leads to the recruitment of incompetent people. The United States is a vast and powerful nation that must afford top-notch analysts and managers who can predict several steps ahead. We are now behaving like a chess lover who catches a pawn and loses a knight in a few moves. US actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine are inspired by the One Step idea.
The United States should at least triple the salaries of senior State Department officials to hire strong pragmatists instead of ideologically driven propagandists.
