President Elect Donald Trump announced that he has named Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state. Tillerson, for the three of you who don't already know, has been the CEO of Exxon for the last dozen years.
The amazing thing to me has been the response by many in the mainstream media in which they call Tillerson a "novice" when it comes to diplomacy. Are they kidding? Exxon is bigger than a great many countries. It does business in something like 50 different countries. In many places, the head of Exxon has to deal with the government in major ways in order to continue its activities there. Tillerson has probably spent more time with world leaders than any of the other candidates who were up for the office except maybe for John Bolton who used to be ambassador to the UN (although it's hard to call people at the UN world leaders.) Rex is not a novice.
Another big complaint is that Tillerson got awarded the "order of friendship" by Russia's president Vladimir Putin. Apparently, friendship is now a bad thing. I remember all these media people being very upset when Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing years ago. Peace, after all, must be worse even than friendship. These people are truly morons. America should want a secretary of state who knows Putin and has a good relationship with him. That might enable the new secretary to explain the position of the USA to Putin without it being seen as some sort of personal attack.
Then there's the group that is complaining that Tillerson is a white male. It seems that the switch from John Kerry to Rex Tillerson somehow makes a difference in that regard. Forgetting the idiocy of that position, it is good to know that Trump is going for the best people rather than some sort of phony diversity.
Welcome aboard Rex.
The amazing thing to me has been the response by many in the mainstream media in which they call Tillerson a "novice" when it comes to diplomacy. Are they kidding? Exxon is bigger than a great many countries. It does business in something like 50 different countries. In many places, the head of Exxon has to deal with the government in major ways in order to continue its activities there. Tillerson has probably spent more time with world leaders than any of the other candidates who were up for the office except maybe for John Bolton who used to be ambassador to the UN (although it's hard to call people at the UN world leaders.) Rex is not a novice.
Another big complaint is that Tillerson got awarded the "order of friendship" by Russia's president Vladimir Putin. Apparently, friendship is now a bad thing. I remember all these media people being very upset when Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing years ago. Peace, after all, must be worse even than friendship. These people are truly morons. America should want a secretary of state who knows Putin and has a good relationship with him. That might enable the new secretary to explain the position of the USA to Putin without it being seen as some sort of personal attack.
Then there's the group that is complaining that Tillerson is a white male. It seems that the switch from John Kerry to Rex Tillerson somehow makes a difference in that regard. Forgetting the idiocy of that position, it is good to know that Trump is going for the best people rather than some sort of phony diversity.
Welcome aboard Rex.
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