It starts when diplomacy is tempered by experience outside the embassy set.
AKA, never.
What diplomat is going to tell a senior official, "Oh, btw, your constitution sucks." Especially when it...
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It starts when diplomacy is tempered by...
It starts when diplomacy is tempered by experience outside the embassy set.
AKA, never.
What diplomat is going to tell a senior official, "Oh, btw, your constitution sucks." Especially when it...
Problems at the Macro level
Two fundamental questions haven't been asked by the State types that are completely hampering our efforts.
1. Is AFghanistan a viable country in a post cold war era?
2. Is the Constitution of...
I exagerate, but not much.
In zabul we had one...
I exagerate, but not much.
In zabul we had one state department rep for a critical southern province providing mentorship to a state level governor.
The first was a public affairs officer. Not a...
State Department Systematic Failures
State department types are concerned with who gets invited to what cocktail party and how to quickly get out of whatever strategically critical "hole" they findthemselves in and more to a comfortable...