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To: kabar

(1) Only if the career is more important than your principles.
(2)Not Enough.
(3)I remember Hume Horan. Sometimes you have to take one for the team. Like Amb. Patterson needs to do.
(4) There is a way to pursue your government’s objectives
while incurring the least resistance. There is a word for it...Diplomacy.
She needs to resign in order to serve her country. That’s what she signed up to do. And she gets a nice pension, too.


64 posted on 07/04/2013 11:29:17 AM PDT by montaine
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To: montaine
I remember Hume Horan. Sometimes you have to take one for the team. Like Amb. Patterson needs to do.

Anne Patterson is taking one for the team. She is the target of the mobs. Her life is in danger.

There is a way to pursue your government’s objectives while incurring the least resistance. There is a word for it...Diplomacy. She needs to resign in order to serve her country. That’s what she signed up to do. And she gets a nice pension, too.

She can be replaced in Cairo and be reassigned to a position in the Department. She is being considered as a possible Assistant Secretary for NEA. Why should she resign from the Foreign Service? She has done nothing wrong.

74 posted on 07/04/2013 11:42:36 AM PDT by kabar
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