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Foreign Service Slackers

Who will fire the sissies at State? Also: Keith: It gets worse. Plus: Randian selflessness. And much more.

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br> Fort Gordon, Georgia br> Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran /p>

Please stop spreading the perception that Colombia is a hellhole. I just got back from Colombia and visited the U.S. embassy. Nobody's scared and nobody considers it a bad assignment. It used to be bad, but is no longer. In fact, Colombia's cities are the safest in South America. Believe me, I know.

p>Venezuela is the crappy diplomatic assignment, not Colombia. In Caracas, armed motorcycle thugs and Cuban agents harass American embassy personnel. In Colombia, U.S. diplomats are welcomed warmly. Why do I write you about this? Because Colombia is trying to get a free trade pact passed and morons on the right still think that Colombia is dangerous, a drug free for all and not worthy of free trade. It's not, and that detestable lie harms our dear ally and makes Hugo Chavez happy. Hugo Chavez is more opposed to Colombia's free trade than anyone. Please don't badmouth Colombia anymore. Badmouth Hugo Chavez. But don't badmouth Colombia. Thanks. br> -- Vivita Mora /p>

Like myself (DoD), and these so-called FSOs, every federal government employee takes the oath of office. Part of that oath is to support the Constitution of the United States of America.

Nobody held a gun to the heads of these FSOs when they freely signed up for duty in the State Department. I find it totally reprehensible, unacceptable, and yes, unpatriotic, for these losers to be whining and crying when they are handed an assignment that may not be politically tenable to their "higher morals." Suck it up and do your jobs -- the taxpayers demand no less.

I take the actions of these FSOs (especially on national TV) as an insult. If Sec Rice wants to call on me to serve in SWA, I'll salute and serve immediately.

p>As for these "professional" FSOs, fire every damn last one of them. br> -- Owen H. Carneal, Jr. br> Yorktown, Virginia
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