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Article: Frost at Foggy Bottom. (Comment).(John Brady Kiesling and John Brown resign State Department United States)
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- The Nation
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- April 7, 2003
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Is the government's foreign policy apparatus a casualty of war? The recent resignations of two career State Department officials, who left to protest George W. Bush's push for war, raised the possibility that the White House's Iraq policy was fomenting disquiet and unease in the ranks of the diplomatic corps. Two departing a service of 9,500 people do not a mutiny make. In the early 1990s, five State Department officials resigned in disgust over a lackadaisical US policy in Bosnia. But the actions of these two diplomats--John Brady Kiesling and John Brown--reflect the concerns of many current and former Foreign Service officers who fear that Bush has undermined and ...