You've probably read by now that the State Department can't get enough volunteers to staff our embassy in Baghdad. So, the bosses threatened to "assign" employees to work there. That's didn't go over well. Not at all. So, what do we do? Here's a suggestion...
Juan Cole gets up in Bush's kool-aid: "The US embassy in Iraq should be closed. It is not safe for the personnel there. Some sort of rump mission of hardy volunteers could be maintained. But kidnapping our most capable diplomats [...]
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More on the Need to Close down the US Embassy in Baghdad
...In response to readers who said, essentially, that the State Department personnel signed a contract and should be sent same as the troops, I beg to differ. While all foreign service officers join knowing there will be risks, none is joining the army and typically embassies in war zones are shut down by the secretary of state and the president for precisely this reason. Foreign Service Officers are civilians. They are not [...]
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