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1.0 link 144953 <![CDATA[Streamline, Don't Swell, Our Foreign Affairs Machine]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-peter-bridges/streamline-dont-swell-our_b_144953.html Experts say Obama must beef up the State Department, giving it more money and more people. They note that the better-funded Pentagon has been usurping functions that belong in or under State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Certainly the State Department and USAID need more money. They do not need more people. One wonders if some of those who urge growth see themselves among new Under and Assistant Secretaries overseeing a more complex structure.

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