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Article: Comment on: "Iraq, the Foreign Service, and Duty.".
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- American Diplomacy
- Article date:
- November 13, 2007
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In his recent editorial "Iraq, the Foreign Service, and Duty," our distinguished editor makes several assumptions about today's Foreign Service with which I disagree. First, he suggests that the principle of worldwide availability has been eroded since the "good old days." I would suggest that the principle was never applied equitably in the first place. Granted there was no open assignment process. Instead, whom one knew and one's place in the hierarchy generally determined the location and type of assignment one received. Assignments to Vietnam were not spread equitably across the Foreign Service. Over the years the principle has certainly been eroded through a process ...