[taraharris]

There's no need to "destroy" the entire foreign policy establishment. We just need to force them to operate without the secrecy and privileges they presently enjoy and exploit so they can be subject to the democratic process.

Surely this is better than to suffer more wars like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

EDIT (apparently my responses are being throttled): In response to wolverine876's question below, "How would secrecy be managed?"

We don't need any secrecy or statecraft. We're so large and established that we can do everything out in the open. Russia and China know where our missiles, bases, ships and submarines are, and we know where their are. The only people in the dark about everything are the citizens in both countries.

A similar argument was made against Linux when open-source was new. It turns out you don't need any closed source code at all to run a successful project.

[wolverine876]

I'm still not sure what solution you are suggesting. How would secrecy be managed?