Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:31 pm
Oval Office
"You had certainly made known that you wanted to serve, Mr. Secretary." Eric pointed out. "You have certainly paid your dues enough to be given this chance that you had been looking for."
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Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"You had certainly made known that you wanted to serve, Mr. Secretary." Eric pointed out. "You have certainly paid your dues enough to be given this chance that you had been looking for."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
Eric folded his hands on the desk.
"Essentially, Mr. Secretary, you are being given a chance to prove yourself. Demonstrate to us that you can be capable on the world stage. A Presidency of a month is not one that will set new international norms, but that doesn't mean it's not influential. The one task that we will be attempting to complete is the creation of a staging area for our renewed assault on ISIL, and you are the chief diplomat of the United States. Beyond that, you are being given an extraordinary amount of leash, Mr. Secretary, to prove your worth. You have a chance to display how well you are suited for such a high position, and to do what you can to start the fixes on the disaster left to us."
"I don't have to tell you that this is an opportunity that does not come more than once in a lifetime, Mr. Secretary. I hope you prove worthy of it."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"I haven't done anything to throw out the cabinet that's here now, if you noticed." Eric replied. "If they're clean, and doing their jobs well, then they can stay. We'll be launching an investigation into the Department of course, but we are not dumping everyone out and starting over again. Where there are vacancies, we'll fill them."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"That entire ridiculous situation of taking Turkey out of NATO may have been the most damaging thing Winston ever did in office." A clearly irritated Eric laid down. "It's fundamentally upset a power balance we've been carefully keeping since the Cold War. We can only hope his idiocy won't end up being irreversible. Still, we need to be cautious with Turkey. The deal they cut with Winston is something we can't approve of, and the whole situation with Garestaer is questionable. It is not a simple diplomatic situation, but the foundation of rebuilding our relationship should be laid, carefully."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"Caution is indeed a virtue though inaction isn't. Striking the balance is your task, as is the staging area, as I told you. Ensuring Qatar is in agreement with serving as a temporary stopgap should be no trouble at all. Working with our other allies in the Middle East will be a task that I hope you are suited for." Eric said, a meaningful gaze on Lee.
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"I don't have any plans to tear down existing deals." Eric responded. "Those agreements have already been made. It's future policy that we're making changes to."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
"We will do our best to improve relations with Russia, in a general sense, without condoning their action. I will leave the broad sweeps of foreign policy to Reed. At this point, the general mending of fences where possible, without caving, should be our strategy. It is not necessarily what I would do if I had a full term before me, but we don't have the time for grand schemes of policy."
Prolieum wrote:Oval Office
Eric nodded. "You do have broad discretion, but our general strategy is one of reconciliation, and the strengthening and repairing of relations wherever possible. We will not change the world in a month, or restore this country's place in it, but perhaps we can push it in the right direction."