The wrongs dragging 'rightsizing' efforts

EVEN with the diminished influence of the US over global affairs, many of its agencies have to be organized and structured to effectively attend to its continents — spanning, sprawling concerns, the US State Department in particular. The State Department's vast bureaucracy is a dictate of the agency's many functions in a world roiled by turmoil and uncertainty, the flexible and ever-changing nature of diplomacy, the requirements of diplomatic outposts in both the old democracies and troubled nations led by unpredictable tin-pot dictators.