Foreign Service
Foreign Service Employee, Jack Croddy said: “I'm sorry, but basically that’s a potential death sentence and you know it....who will take care of our children? Who will raise our children if we’re dead or seriously wounded?.... Any other embassy in the world, would be closed at this point, with all these incoming rocket.... You roll your eyes, but we have polled the Foreign Service. Only, twelve percent of your Foreign Service believes that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is fighting for them.”
Recently, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice respond to the harsh criticism from her own employees during a town hall meeting, by sending a cable to diplomats around the world: “I commit to each of you that all those who serve in Iraq and their families will receive the department’s full support before, during and after their assignment.”
Ryan Crocker her envoy to Baghdad, insisted that the diplomats need to put national interests over their personal safety and those who don’t agree are in the wrong line of business.
Former U.S. ambassador to Syria, Edward Djerejian states: “It was incumbent upon the Foreign Service officers to accept hardship assignments, sometimes in war zones. And that certainly has been a tradition of the Service.”
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is short by almost 50 diplomats and is having a hard time getting volunteers to fill the spots. Consequently, the State Department has ordered some to go, whether they like it or not.
Foreign Service officers were last forced into duty, during the Vietnam War. Rice is appealing to patriotism to help settle the diplomatic fury, by telling reporters: “People need to serve wherever they’re need. This is one of the highest priority tasks of the United States and we are going to meet our obligations.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Recently, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice respond to the harsh criticism from her own employees during a town hall meeting, by sending a cable to diplomats around the world: “I commit to each of you that all those who serve in Iraq and their families will receive the department’s full support before, during and after their assignment.”
Ryan Crocker her envoy to Baghdad, insisted that the diplomats need to put national interests over their personal safety and those who don’t agree are in the wrong line of business.
Former U.S. ambassador to Syria, Edward Djerejian states: “It was incumbent upon the Foreign Service officers to accept hardship assignments, sometimes in war zones. And that certainly has been a tradition of the Service.”
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is short by almost 50 diplomats and is having a hard time getting volunteers to fill the spots. Consequently, the State Department has ordered some to go, whether they like it or not.
Foreign Service officers were last forced into duty, during the Vietnam War. Rice is appealing to patriotism to help settle the diplomatic fury, by telling reporters: “People need to serve wherever they’re need. This is one of the highest priority tasks of the United States and we are going to meet our obligations.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
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