Quit then
The military goes where they are sent. Whine? Complain? Sure...but they go.
Here's the pansies from Foggy Bottom with their knickers all in a knot.
Look, you voluntarily signed up - NO ONE forced you to become government employees and work in the diplomatic service. You agreed to represent the interests of the United States. Period. You need to go where you are sent, even "under the threat of dismissal".Postings to Iraq Upset Diplomats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department's decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a "potential death sentence."
In a contentious hour-long "town hall meeting," they peppered officials behind the order with often hostile complaints about the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam. Announced last week, it will require some diplomats — under threat of dismissal — to serve at the embassy in Baghdad and in so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams in outlying provinces.
Many expressed serious concern about the ethics of sending diplomats against their will to serve in a war zone, where the embassy staff is largely confined to the so-called "Green Zone," and the safety outside the area is uncertain while a review of the department's use of private security contractors to protect its staff is under way.
Once again, I see this entitlement mentality of government workers who believe they should be running the show.
It's getting late, and I'm not in the mood to start a giant rant, so I'll keep it short:
Go and do your job. Complain if you must, but go
Or take the man's way - quit if it assails your sensibilities and sense of morality. Or quit if your're chicken.
I've heard that State is often at cross odds with Republican administrations - is this symbolic of it? Could be an opportunity, eh?
Refuse, and I mean REALLY refuse, to do a task in many private sector jobs, you're sacked.He and others directly confronted Foreign Service Director General Harry Thomas, who approved the move to "directed assignments" late last Friday to make up for a lack of volunteers willing to go to Iraq.
"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers, but it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment," Crotty said. "I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?"
Oops - well, here we go - what is another factor?
the diplomats' union, the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)
