The first U.S. diplomats to resign their posts over administration policy toward Iraq are an impressive couple.
John Brady Kiesling, formerly based in Athens, Greece, and John Brown, recently stationed in Moscow, have each spent 20 years in the Foreign Service. You can hear the decades of dedication to civility when they speak.
The two men's verdicts are dramatic: The Bush administration has failed to explain why lives should be risked and lost to wage war against Iraq. They say the administration has failed to prove any link between terrorism and Saddam Hussein.
Instead, Washington is distorting evidence, manipulating public fears and willfully disregarding international public opinion, and the country which they both clearly love is becoming a dangerous international outlaw.
These are not opinions arrived at casually.
"The president's disregard for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an anti-American century."
They called on Americans to resist being manipulated by disproportionate fear. Remember, they said, "This country remains the safest place in the world."
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