Word: diplomatic
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...Living abroad does give you a wider view of the world," says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years as a child living in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is "a person with genuine sensitivity of world affairs," says Brzenzinski, who is supporting Obama. "It's not the conventional mouthing of culture sensitivities." Brzezinski points to Obama's greater willingness to meet leaders of hostile nations and his early resistance to the war in Iraq as examples of his superior intuition on foreign policy...
Every child is a gift, as the saying goes. But in a case that has stoked outrage on two continents, a Dutch diplomat posted in Hong Kong has been accused of returning his eight-year-old adopted daughter like an unwanted Christmas necktie. The story, which first appeared in the South China Morning Post on Dec. 9, began seven years ago, when Dutch vice consul Raymond Poeteray and his wife, Meta, adopted then-four-months-old Jade in South Korea. The couple, who also have two biological children, brought Jade with them to Indonesia and then to Hong Kong...
...Teaching a Diplomat Diplomacy I was shocked and somewhat antagonized by John Bolton's answers to some of the questions readers asked [Nov. 26]. In particular, I was alarmed by his lack of support for diplomacy in delicate situations like dealing with Iran. He also revealed arrogance and pomposity when referring to the U.N. as "a useful instrument of American foreign policy." Bolton must be blind and deaf if he thinks that anti-Americanism isn't sweeping the world. If he wants to see real change in the way America is viewed and practical solutions to global tension, he should...
...questions [Nov. 26]. Since he has been our emissary to the world, I would expect him to be an intelligent and capable man. But his comments were like those of an actor promoting his new movie (of course, he's promoting his new book). It is inconceivable that a diplomat would believe the simplistic and readily disprovable worldviews he expressed. On the other hand, such opinions will sell books, presumably to Bolton's financial and political gain. My spirits are raised only by the possibility that peacemakers may one day receive their due rewards. Michael Bush, Port Orange...
...controls the levers in that country. There are two of everything. There is a popularly elected President (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and a - more powerful - Supreme Leader (Ayatullah Ali Khamenei). There is an Iranian army and a - more powerful - Revolutionary Guard Corps. As recently as two years ago, a senior U.S. diplomat told me, "We don't know anything about what goes on inside that government." But that has changed fairly dramatically in the past year. A special CIA Iran-analysis group, which calls itself "Persia House," was split off from the agency's Middle East regional analysts. A major effort...