Saturday, April 05, 2003
Bush makes Diplomats sick too
There are decent people in the Foreign Service. unfortunately for us a couple of them could no longer stomach this Administration's arrogance and deceit to the American people. Pretty impressive statement, even if I say so myself.
Robin Cook resigned as leader of the Commons from Tony Blair's cabinet when Blair decided to go to attack Iraq. He has recently been joined by 2 United States Foreign Service Diplomats, who quit for the same reasons, The US attack of Iraq.
After many years of working in the service of the US Government and for various administrations, both Democrat and Republican, John Brady Kiesling, could no longer defend or support President Bush's policies.
John Brady Kiesling, a veteran of 20 years was until recently, a U.S. Diplomat based in Athens, Greece. Another veteran Diplomat, John Brown, joined Kiesling just three days ago.
Brown was a senior member of the Foreign Service, who also served in the State Department for more than 20 years. He was stationed primarily in Eastern Europe and most recently in Moscow, before he too, turned in his resignation to Colin Powell.
According to John Brady's letter of resignation. President Bush bears an enormous personal responsibility for stringing together a number of half – true statements to make it sound as if, somehow by invading Iraq, we will protect ourselves against terror. There's no real connection between the two. He said in fact, you could argue that there's an inverse connection. To fight terrorism, we need strong states in the Middle East. He wished we had strong democratic states in the Middle East, and we should work to achieve strong democratic states in the Middle East. But in the meantime, we should work with what's attainable, which is a number of states that share our view that terrorism is a threat to them as well as to us, therefore it is in their interest to cooperate with us.
Brady became physically ill trying to balance his service to the Government spreading the "Official US Response" to our allies and his personal convictions about the damage President Bush was doing.
According to both of the foreign service diplomats, Bush's policy is based on arrogance, on the notion that we can recreate the world, recreate regions, One of their concerns is that we, in a sense, believe ourselves to be the masters of the universe. History tells us that you cannot impose freedom from afar.
I don't suspect George W. was much on history.
Unfortunately for him and us, I firmly believe he will go down in history as among other things, as a the President who did not let anything or anyone sway him from his view of the world. He will be known as the President who ignored, established allies, NATO, the UN, 1,000,000 + people around the world protesting his policies, Foreign Intelligence services, our own Intelligence agencies, the Pope, Colin Powell, and his own father.
What a legacy, what a waste of human life, what a cost to be paid, for a false ideology by a theocratic President.
Sources cited:
By Laura Flanders,
John Brady Kiesling's Letter of Resignation to Colin Powell
Robin Cook resigned as leader of the Commons from Tony Blair's cabinet when Blair decided to go to attack Iraq. He has recently been joined by 2 United States Foreign Service Diplomats, who quit for the same reasons, The US attack of Iraq.
After many years of working in the service of the US Government and for various administrations, both Democrat and Republican, John Brady Kiesling, could no longer defend or support President Bush's policies.
John Brady Kiesling, a veteran of 20 years was until recently, a U.S. Diplomat based in Athens, Greece. Another veteran Diplomat, John Brown, joined Kiesling just three days ago.
Brown was a senior member of the Foreign Service, who also served in the State Department for more than 20 years. He was stationed primarily in Eastern Europe and most recently in Moscow, before he too, turned in his resignation to Colin Powell.
According to John Brady's letter of resignation. President Bush bears an enormous personal responsibility for stringing together a number of half – true statements to make it sound as if, somehow by invading Iraq, we will protect ourselves against terror. There's no real connection between the two. He said in fact, you could argue that there's an inverse connection. To fight terrorism, we need strong states in the Middle East. He wished we had strong democratic states in the Middle East, and we should work to achieve strong democratic states in the Middle East. But in the meantime, we should work with what's attainable, which is a number of states that share our view that terrorism is a threat to them as well as to us, therefore it is in their interest to cooperate with us.
Brady became physically ill trying to balance his service to the Government spreading the "Official US Response" to our allies and his personal convictions about the damage President Bush was doing.
According to both of the foreign service diplomats, Bush's policy is based on arrogance, on the notion that we can recreate the world, recreate regions, One of their concerns is that we, in a sense, believe ourselves to be the masters of the universe. History tells us that you cannot impose freedom from afar.
I don't suspect George W. was much on history.
Unfortunately for him and us, I firmly believe he will go down in history as among other things, as a the President who did not let anything or anyone sway him from his view of the world. He will be known as the President who ignored, established allies, NATO, the UN, 1,000,000 + people around the world protesting his policies, Foreign Intelligence services, our own Intelligence agencies, the Pope, Colin Powell, and his own father.
What a legacy, what a waste of human life, what a cost to be paid, for a false ideology by a theocratic President.
Sources cited:
By Laura Flanders,
John Brady Kiesling's Letter of Resignation to Colin Powell
# posted by Thomas @ 12:00 AM 
