re affairs, all run by assistant secretaries and deputy assistant secretaries. (Rosati 142) Under the deputy assistant secretaries lie the country directors, each representative of his own country.
             Here is where we encounter an intrinsic flaw. The flaw is "Foggy Bottom's inverted priorities- believing that the job of the diplomatic corps is to represent a foreign country's interest in America, not America's interests in a foreign country..." (Mowbray 89) Many Foreign Service officers fall prey to this problem, often dubbed "going native." If the people responsible for representing our interests instead representing someone else's, that poses a slight dilemma. Who will look after the interests of the U.S.? Of course, not all members of the state department have abandoned the interest of the U.S.; many are bound and determined to keep the Department on the straight and narrow, the way they see fit. These officials with tenure and a long standing career in State have seen presidents come and go, and are determined to do what they think is in the best interests of the nation, oftentimes working against the wishes of the president or other policy making bodies. Their arrogance and stubbornness can be traced to the organization's subculture.
             Many things make up State's subculture, but the most problematic, besides their willingness to put foreign states' concerns over our own, is their elitist tendencies. These are readily prevalent in the Foreign Service, because for one, it is very difficult to become an FSO or Foreign Service officer of any kind. And secondly, those who are chosen are always white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, always from families of wealth, and always Ivy-league educated; so the habit of elitism is already ingrained in their well-educated minds, and the way they are expected to do their job, to conform to standard practices already in place years before they...