The State Department's replacement of flags should only be the start
Some past and present diplomats are upset that the State Department has removed the flags of all the countries and territories in which the United States has diplomatic relations, replacing them with American flags. “It’s so much worse than ‘America First,’” former peace processer Aaron David Miller quipped.
TL;DR
- The State Department replaced all foreign flags with American flags.
- Some past and present diplomats are upset by this change.
- Former peace processer Aaron David Miller called the move "so much worse than 'America First.'"
- The article posits that the primary job of the State Department is to represent the U.S.
- The diplomats' objections are seen as highlighting a problem they deny.