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More folks with years of policy expertise head for the doors. Just didn't have their minds right. Knight-Ridder (02.07.06):

"State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political operatives who share the White House and Pentagon's distrust of international negotiations and treaties."

State Department sees exodus of weapons experts

"The reorganization of the department's arms control and international security bureaus was intended to help it better deal with 21st-century threats."

"Instead, it's thrown the agency into turmoil and produced an exodus of experts with decades of experience in nuclear arms, chemical weapons and related matters, according to 11 current and former officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder."

Here's one example of the political operatives being hired.

"An inquiry by Knight Ridder has found evidence that the reorganization was highly politicized and devastated morale".

Once again, all politics and no policy.