State Department Is Arming Itself
This is not good.
Soldiers are trained for war, and diplomats are trained in diplomacy. But diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Iraq, the largest U.S. embassy in the world, will soon be the moonlight in the war.
In forecasting the total withdrawal of American forces from Iraq by late 2011 the U.S. Department of State - a bureaucracy of diplomats in the civilian population
By Warren P. Strobel - McClatchy Newspapers - July 21, 2010
WASHINGTON - Can diplomats on the ground of their own army?The State Department plans to do exactly that in Iraq, in an unprecedented experience that U.S. officials and some lawmakers nervous that could be risky.
In little over a year, the State Department contractors in Iraq could be driving tanks, flying airplanes, operating surveillance systems, even if recovery of victims of violent incidents and disposal of unexploded ordnance....


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