With jitters in the east of Europe about further Russian incursion, and wariness in China, the state of world diplomacy could look very different by 2015.
"The fact that the president took six months to simply say that our policy is to oppose violence, support universal rights, and support reform epitomizes the sad state of American diplomacy," Santorum said.
"We will not be moving to a new facility... we are going to retrofit a building," Steve Goldstein, undersecretary of state for diplomacy and public affairs, told The Wall Street Journal.
There has been an intense debate within the Bush administration over Iran, with the vice-president, Dick Cheney, in favour of a military strike against Iranian nuclear plants and the state department in favour of diplomacy.
The initiative has been intended to address the new reality of state diplomacy in a networked world.
As for us grownups, we would have preferred the wicked stepmother to have been, I don't know, forced to work as a pitchwoman on a cable shopping channel, or made editor of Vogue, or appointed assistant Secretary of State for public diplomacy, instead of being turned into a monster and killed.
Score: 0 2014 State of the Union: American diplomacy is supporting Israelis and Palestinians as they engage in difficult but necessary talks to end the conflict there; to achieve dignity and an independent state for Palestinians, and lasting peace and security for the state of Israel.
Overseas, they usually have Ministers of Information of Ministers of Culture, not Under Secretaries of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
"I am not a man of diplomacy," Khamenei stated then.
