The door from which you enter is not nearly as important as the door from which you leave.
Diplomats… revolt? or chicken out?
If an Army General had a meeting about our Soldiers forced deployments to Iraq and asked for open comments he MIGHT get the same type of reaction that Harry Thomas, the Foreign Service Director General received at a meeting held on Wed. The meeting was in regards to the forced Iraq work assignments for 75 US Diplomats.
But the truth of the matter is that, like Soldiers, US Diplomats pledge an oath to do their work and to serve the “needs of the US Government”. Unlike Soldiers however, these people can refuse, leave their jobs, and seek employment elsewhere.
I think they need to stop complaining and either go, or find a new job. I’m sure the soldiers over in Iraq wish they had that option.
It strikes me as funny that we have been at “war” (and I define war as a time in which there are American Soldiers fighting and dieing at the order of the president) for nearly 5 years and when some other American citizens are asked to sacrifice, a big oh ub-bub is thrown…. Heavan forbid other Americans help to improve the situation.
One US Diplomat, Jack Croddy said…
“I’m sorry, but basically that’s a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?”
Well…. who takes care of the children of our fallen soldiers? If you feel that strongly about not going over there then maybe you should work harder towards getting us out!
Bush should have had twice the number of diplomats over there from the beginning any how. The real reason we have lost this battle is because it was treated merely like a military conquest and not the humanitarian and diplomatic situation it really was.
Oh, and by the way… not a single US Diplomat has been killed in Iraq… I guess thats because of all those amazing brave Soldiers over there doing their job and doing it well.
