Editorial: Mission impossible: Running stable foreign policy for an unstable president

Rex Tillerson was the wrong person to run the U.S. State Department, and he has done deep damage to the organization - most notably by proposing a controversial restructuring plan that would have shrunk the department, triggering the resignations of more than half the senior career diplomats and failing to fill top vacancies (the White House shares much of that blame, too). But given Tillerson's role as one of the few sane heads in the upper