Tillerson boss is Trump. Trumps has cast doubts on his own Secretary of State. This is so against any management rules that as a boss you cant and should not doubt or question your subordinates in public.
America is run by Trump. And Trump has inflicted damage to America's reputation that USA's worst enemies could have wished for. Trump is running America like any so called democratically elected Third World leader. Of all people, his daughter and son in law are running his foreign policy.
This is how much America is to be taken seriously right now.
Trump policy in Afghanistan is knee jerk. In all 15 years and three Presidents, USA has not even tried to understand regional dynamics and how to find a political solution to a political problem in Afghanistan. For America, US military and its military industry run every policy. Military intervention is not solution to everything unless that intervention was not
meant to win a war but to set up a foothold in strategic region.