Reply #2: heh heh [View All]

[psychopomp]

"...with military personnel in those countries all but supplanting the role of ambassadors in conducting American foreign policy."

change that to "...with military personnel in those countries all but supplanting the role of the CIA in conducting American foreign policy" and the writer might be correct.

Not that that is anything peculiar to the U.S., every country does it to some extent.