DCM in Mongolia? Now there's a sign that your career in diplomacy has a bright future.

She just wanted to get out of Mongolia. That has got to be the diplomatic services equivalent to the FBI sending you to the North Dakota Field office.

"Stop breaking down my city wall you stupid Mongoriaaans!" - Wok City Manager

Bravo! Another tranzi surfaces and scuttles back to the warm cocoon of university life. The State Department just got one notch better.

ooh...watch out. Mongolia.

Watch relations with Mongolia start to suddenly improve.

What was the reaction on the Mongolian Street?

2 water buffalo's farted...

Christ, the State Department needs fumigating as much as the Middle East. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

One less Foggy Bottomer to undermine American foreign policy interests.

Anyone know how many pro-Nazi diplomats resigned after Pearl Harbor and the declarations of war that followed?

Not that I'm saying anything about Ms. Wright; I'm just asking, that's all.

The State Department is notorious for pursuing its own agenda. Most of those folks have been around since at least the first Clinton Administration.

Geeze... can no one disagree with the government? She's just expressing her disagreement with a policy and left. Why say bad things about her? I'm sure there's plenty of less honest people left in the State Department who are only pretending to support the war just to keep their jobs.

Great.....about 3,000 more of these and we will have a State Department that will actually be effective in furthering our national interests.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_4677.shtml

Thats right TAD. No one is allowed to disagree with the government. And since our government is now run by jack-booted thugs instead of cigar-sniffing romantics, she probably end up in the jailhouse when she returns to the US. BTW, a couple of G-men will be stopping by shortly to escort you to your new digs!

Tad - people aren't criticizing opposition per se. Its just that the biggest enemy are country faces is our own State Department. Gosh, maybe McCarthy was right?

Tad, She's got every right to disagree, but why take it to the extreme of quitting her job? My boss and I butt heads at least weekly, sometimes on significant corp. issues, but we either work it out or agree that we don't see it the same way, and life goes on. I still respect him, and he still respects me.
I guess I'm just too cynical about the value of Grand Gestures.

It's not even that she quit, but rather that she had to make a public spectacle of it. She knows she's a nobody, and any dissent within the administration right now, no matter where it comes from (Mongolia???) is going to be big news.

She knew this, and I will bet that copies of this letter were delivered to the press before it even got to Powell's office.

Wright's resignation letter is dated March 21.

"Anyone know how many pro-Nazi diplomats resigned after Pearl Harbor and the declarations of war that followed?"

do you mean besides JFK's father?

maybe my head is too small for all the stuff there is to see in all the news that's posted around the world. Basically, I only really needed to see one thing: last night's CBS news report that showed one of the marines who was handing aid packages out say with a tear in his eye, "now I know why I'm here".

Her right to criticize (the administration) is equal to not greater than my right to criticize (her). That she resigned is honorable; that she did so publicly is not. But worst of all, her main complaint, as someone whose job is to promote and defend American interests abroad, seems to be that this administration refuses to allow foreign nations to dictate American policy.

I could only dream that more people in State would resign. The US State Dept. is in desperate needing of a spring cleaning. These are long beuracrats who have far too much job security and no incentive to be productive.

WeeWilly, I saw that too. Seeing him cry like that touched me like nothing else.

"Tad - people aren't criticizing opposition per se. Its just that the biggest enemy are country faces is our own State Department. Gosh, maybe McCarthy was right?" -darivash

Enemy? How dare you. Expression of dissenting opinions is what makes democracy great. Just because Bush is in charge and makes a decision (if he actually makes decisions that don't come from Rove) doesn't mean that every government employee in the world has to fall in line like a lemming.

She would have come home on her shield, but they were too busy cooking a Mongolian BBQ on it.

Gee, why are we spending billions of dollars fighting Saddam Hussein and ignoring what I'm surprised to learn is an even bigger enemy - the State Department! This subtle call to end the war immediately should cause many to shout down "darivash" with insults immediately, right?

Obviously someone is releasing the resignation letters, and it's not Colin Powell. It becomes more than self-serving to do so. Grand gestures, as I know only too well, rarely appear as grand in hindsight or to other people.

She has the right to believe whatever she wants. And we have the right to analyze those beliefs based upon things like the importance of her position in the scheme of things. I'll be the janitors at the State Department have opinions, too. Perhpas they ought to be publicized.

And in a seperate statement, Amy said that she has accepted a positon as Assoc. Professor of Womens Studies at Vassar College.

Bye