Well, a has a long list, beginning with the Impeachment of Bush #43 and the can then turn his sites on Speaker Boner.
His audience back home got a good show. Rude and crude counts for him. Reading cables is not the only function of the Secretary of State. What exactly are his recommendations in the form of legislation that matters, though?
The truth of the matter is, the only persons able to continue as President of the United States of America after the end of President Obama's second term, is someone in the Executive Branch. The national security of the USA is so very different today, experience with it will carry greater brevity in the future. Passing the baton will be important, especially in four more years. The paradigm of national security has to be examined for purpose and effectiveness. Same ole', same ole isn't going to hold up anymore.
NATO cannot continue to kill innocent people in war theaters for the sake of Pre-Emption. That strategy alone will cause a greater war and far reaching consequences for international relations and stability. The West has a challenge to actually pull peoples in these regions of the world up by the bootstraps to understand their world and economies to support their own sovereignty. The USA cannot continue to invade countries at will to satisfy its' own politically demented sense of security. Wall Street is going to have to assess it's own security needs and stop crying as 'USA interests.' In many ways, Wall Street is not!
For those focused on CABLES as the breakdown of national security in relation to our State Department missions need to deal with the fact CABLES DON'T WORK. In order for them to actually get paid for DOING THEIR JOBS, they need to realize they have to ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR CABLES IN THE FIRST PLACE! Now, the APPROPRIATE questions by Senator Paul would have been, "Since the cables did not reach your attention in a way that mattered, what indeed does the USA need to do to eliminate the need for these cables and find a method to secure the State Department officers in a way that works?"
The only question the USA diplomatic corps have to do when approaching a new government, even after saving lives by stopping dictators such as Gaddafi, "What can the USA do to help promote the stability of the new government and it's authority to promote its sovereignty?" That is the only question and the USA begins to sketch out its interests from that point forward without plans to invade or kill further.
The people of Libya are not interested in another Gaddafi. While Bush and Blair disarmed the nuclear content of Libya to secure the stability of Northern Africa, it didn't promote democracy of the people. So, the idea NATO has the right to carry out their own priorities without regards to the people and their own directives, even in seeking al Qaeda to carry them out, is a ridiculous paradigm that does not belong in the real world anymore. That paradigm only guarantees continued instability and future war. Al Qaeda will exist as a 'strategy' with peoples unable to understand their own world. Al Qaeda does not need a central authority figure, it only needs 'the idea' as a solution to the problems of the impoverished and oppressed. Al Qaeda is nothing new, it was named Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood and the list goes on. Bin Laden globalized the idea as terrorist networks to achieve victory over financial institutions of The West, otherwise, it is all the same.
The reason so called "Terrorist Networks" exist in the first place is because they actually perform services to the people. Their government does not provide food, water, clothing, education in order to read the Quran and basic day to day needs of human beings. The networks provide charity through whatever methods they find economy, even in the cultivation and distribution of cocaine or any other substance in demand they can get their hands on. One of the more tragic expressions of this charity was the destruction of the bizarres in Syria. The West doesn't even try to solicit the support of the people, they leave them to their basic resources to struggle for their lives.
I have to say these things? The American people actually have their information about the world so polluted by hate filled politics they completely ignore their own reality in the world?
