and fire every person at State who would not serve in Iraq! Then fire every person at CIA who were hired during the Clinton years.
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:44:32 PM PST by BGHater
Not another dime in pay increases. Sorry dudes, gals. Maybe you should seek employment in the private sector?
Awwwwwww
The plan all along was to assign FSO’s there if not enough volunteered. The plan was never to force diplomats to serve there, absent enough volunteers.
Still, they should fire those who publicly said they would NOT serve. Let them lose their pensions. They do not deserve to work for Uncle Sam, they certainly aren’t serving him.
Wussy whiners win again...
Plenty of plum assignments available in Nigeria, the Stans and Slaviks.
Let Donald Trump handle the non-volunteers:
YOU’RE FIRED!
I still hope that the diplomat who stood up and made it clear he was afraid to take the assignment because it was "dangerous," got assigned to a really terrible place, for a long time.
Congressman Billybob
The whole lousy State Department isn’t worth the proverbial bucket of warm spit. The country would be better off if the whole Department was shut down.
Diplomat corps maybe, but diplomats are rare. Couriers, receptionists, clerks.
And then the State Department spokesman had the nerve to state that FSO’s are braver than soldiers in danger areas since the former are unarmed. Geez....
Full disclosure: Years ago I took and passed the Foreign Service written exam five out of six times, which is passed by only ten percent. But at the oral exam, they invariably decided that a straight pro-American conservative Vietnam vet wasn’t their cup of tea.
Later, I got back into the Army where I continue to serve to this day, so becoming a `cookie-pusher’ is no longer a priority.
Anyway, what a bunch of morons, protesting their possibly being posted to Iraq. What they’re really protesting is our success in Iraq, IMHO.
(I’m on the Iraq volunteer list.)
;^)
I want to see them all made to do 1 year on and 1 year off rotations in Iraq. I want to see them assigned no better living quarters and meals, showers, etc, than the average PFC there. Then we’ll see just how dedicated they are to glourious /sarcasm nation building. Actually I want to see the department shut down. We do not need a United States Department of State.
and fire every person at State who would not serve in Iraq! Then fire every person at CIA who were hired during the Clinton years.
line up the folks begging out & fire their sorry asses.
Why couldn’t the diplomatic corps be privatized?
Condi proves yet once again why her reputation of being tough is false.
Anyone who turns down an assignment because it is dangerous should immediately be posted to an alternate location that is safe like Siberia or Burundi or Guiana.
Mostly due to direct accountability although that has not kept the ongoing disasters in check anyway. I think the diplomats should be assigned directly to working under the various Secretaries of the issues at hand. None should be assigned to the Pentagon however as when they need to step in negiotations should have already failed. The State Departments management of the Armed Forces Missions Post WW2 has been a disaster.
Typical 
misleading headline. The plan wasn't dropped, it just became un-necessary to implement it.
“Why couldn’t the diplomatic corps be privatized?”
Way back when, if I recall correctly, there was an issue with refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The State Department was in charge, but they subbed out the day-to-day work of interviewing and processing refugees to private concerns. So it was we young folks (ex-Peace Corps, world-travelers, whatnot) who could speak the language and put up with the daily grind and danger in the boondocks who did the grunt work for about 20 percent of what a State Department employee would make.
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