Who Wants to be a Foreign Dipolmat?
Who wants to be a foreign target dipolmat?
ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team at the Embassy of Libya to retain a DC-3 airplane in the country to better conduct their duties.
Copied on the email was U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in a terrorist attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012, along with three other Americans. That attack has prompted questions about whether the diplomatic personnel in that country were provided with adequate security support.
No one has yet to argue that the DC-3 would have definitively made a difference for the four Americans killed that night. The security team in question, after all, left Libya in August.
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I’d much rather be a diplomat with some Marines between me and the mob than a Marine who has been denied bullets for his weapon standing in front of that mob. At least diplomats are complicit in their own reckless stupidity.
[1] Posted by paradoxymoron on 10-7-2012 at 11:32 AM · [top]
To me, what is most important about this article is that the national, liberal media are now willing to report real news that is damning to the Anointed One’s administration.
[2] Posted by sophy0075 on 10-7-2012 at 11:40 AM · [top]
At one time I wanted to be in the foreign service and reached the oral assessment stage a couple of times. Even recently I noticed a specialist position in the foreign service and thought about applying.
After seeing how cheaply this administration views those who actually are on the ground overseas (whether diplomatic or military), I’m not sure I’d want to place my life in their hands. It’s one thing to be put into danger for a good reason and with reasonable precautions like security taken into account. But this administration seems to be just fine sending in our best and brightest just to commit virtual suicide.
[3] Posted by Reformed Wanderer on 10-7-2012 at 12:59 PM · [top]
Yes, sophy0075, I agree. When I saw this picture, I almost fainted. It is the advance cover for the New Yorker scheduled out this week.
[4] Posted by Jackie on 10-7-2012 at 01:34 PM · [top]
I’m available for a staff position in Rio de Janeiro. I even speak the local lingo.
[5] Posted by Jeffersonian on 10-7-2012 at 07:17 PM · [top]
To me, the bottom-line issue is the Obama Administrations’ “world view”. I think they really fall victim to believing “we are in charge now; if we just make nice and talk to them it will all be OK”. Arrogant and naive at best.
The rest of us know, even if just instinctively, that our “friends” in the Middle East CANNOT be trusted, and that having a “big stick” seems to be the only way to deal with them. Even then, there will be things broken and people killed. A shame, really.
But wishing it were different DOES NOT MAKE IT SO! Frankly, to me, the whole embassy thing was a test - and we EPIC FAILED.
The next round from our friends will likely be more brazen and aggressive, until we fight back with impunity.
Better to have reacted decisively and aggressively early vs. waiting for things to ramp up by blaming it on some stupid video.
BTW, anyone buy that video explaination? Really?
[6] Posted by B. Hunter on 10-8-2012 at 02:09 PM · [top]
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