It's too often been said by conservative policy wonks that the U.S. State Department represents every country on the Earth -- except the U.S. That is, they lobby our government for foreign interests, rather than foreign governments for our interests.

A case in point is the treatment of the still-dead terrorist Yasser Arafat. Scott Johnson over at Powerline has the entire sick story, but to summarize: The State Department covered up the fact that Arafat personally ordered the murders of two U.S. diplomats in 1973 for more than three decades. Recall also that Arafat was the "foreign leader" who visited the White House the most during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

Foggy Bottom, as the State Department is called, is a sewer and it need to be drained. We can start with terrorist-enabler and State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs deputy director of press affairs Gregory Sullivan if he is still employed there.