It's been reported by Agency France Presse that, "U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleeza Rice had an emotional meeting in Washington late
Wednesday between senior State Department officials and hundreds of
diplomats on the new policy forcing them to serve in Iraq effective
at end-November.
"Some of the diplomats at the town hall meeting challenged the
senior officials in unusually blunt terms over the policy to begin
'directed assignments' to fill an anticipated shortfall of 48
diplomats in Iraq.
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"Jack Crotty, a member of the
Foreign Service for 36 years, was among the most vocal, calling the
forced deployment to the US embassy in Baghdad or in so-called
provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq a 'potential death
sentence'."
Is it just me or is the quote by British philosopher John Stuart
Mill in 1865 becoming more and more descriptive of our
administration and congressional staff?
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed
and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that
nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for
which he is willing to fight for, nothing which is more important
than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no
chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of
better men."
Armond "Si" Simmons
Pell City, Ala.
hattiesburgamerican.com
