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Is the tide turning?

🔗Jon Szanto <JSZANTO@...> <JSZANTO@...>

2/27/2003 4:59:09 PM

Career diplomat resigns over Iraq policy
http://tinyurl.com/6ky4

J

🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@...> <wallyesterpaulrus@...>

2/27/2003 5:41:02 PM

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto <JSZANTO@A...>"
<JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> Career diplomat resigns over Iraq policy
> http://tinyurl.com/6ky4
>
> J

let's face it -- the bush administration's foreign policy isn't going
to get unanimous support in *any* group you might care to survey. in
many areas, it's totally out of line with world consensus, and
ironically, in line with countries like iraq:

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm

🔗Jon Szanto <JSZANTO@...> <JSZANTO@...>

2/27/2003 8:05:57 PM

Paul,

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@y...>" <wallyesterpaulrus@y...> wrote:
> let's face it -- the bush administration's foreign policy isn't
> going to get unanimous support in *any* group you might care to
> survey.

Of course. Plain as day. However, there has to be at least a small bit of significance in the fact that it is a person in the diplomatic corps that is choosing to relinquish his post - and probably his career. I don't know about you, but I don't see *my* colleagues quitting their jobs over matters of philosophical or ethical consequence.

I'm just hoping that many of these small events will start to coalesce into a great enough movement to turn things around. And it is just a hope, not even a confidence. More than hope would be too much to ask at this point...

Cheers,
Jon (who made my calls during the Virtual March on Washington yesterday...)