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    Commentary: Don't mourn Rex Tillerson's departure

    by Elizabeth Shackelford, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2018 3 minutes

    The unceremonious sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter was the latest gut punch to the battered State Department. For hundreds of U.S. foreign service officers who had just spent weeks organizing Tillerson's "We Don't Think You Are All Shitholes" tour of Africa, it was yet another face-palm moment.

    I recently served nearly two years as a diplomat with the U.S. Mission to Somalia and previously served in South Sudan, Poland and Washington. I understand well the crucial role these

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