A Manager of Overseas Crises, as Much as the World Permits

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/us/politics/tom-donilon-a-manager-of-overseas-crises.html?pagewanted=all

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Subject: re: A Manager of Overseas Crises, as Much as the World Permits
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   A system that requires the president of the United States to toss the reins of foreign affairs to his unelected consiglere while he focuses on a political campaign is a broken system.  Our public servants are elected and paid to do the nation's business, not to run for their next terms.  The current bloated American political campaign is a huge boon to the corporate media who grow fat on campaign commercials. It is also an invitation to rogues around the world to meddle in our affairs while our president is too busy kissing babies and raising money to do the job to which he was elected.

Barry Haskell Levine