diplomat: No other benchmark of success really matters, and it can be measured by anyone who can count dollars by the billion, according to The Guardian. Success as the nation top diplomat will be harder to assess. As Exxon Mobil boss, Tillerson has the task of maximising profit on behalf of his shareholders. What price is to be put on US values human rights, and what is the rate of exchange of those objectives with national security There will be no shortage of opponents and rivals, in his own administration and probably in his own department, who will be counting minuses where he sees pluses or using entirely different units of measurement. In the many global crises that await Tillerson and all those still to come that will rear up in his face, there will be a tangle of interlocking interests that defy dealmaking . That is especially true in a situation where some of the main elements of Trumpian foreign policy contradict one another. There is rarely just a buyer and seller in diplomacy.
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