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Protecting Them Protects Us

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That's the title of an OpEd by Jeffrey Davidow in today's Los Angeles Times.  Davidow, president of the Institute of the Americas, served as U.S. ambassador to Zambia, Venezuela and Mexico during the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations.  LINKIn one of his earliest comedies, Woody Allen had a stereotypical pompous U.S. ambassador bellow to an equally stereotypical group of thuggish Eastern European cops that no American could be dragged off and shot without his personal approval. The ambassador's shout was an understandable, if tortured, explication of something we all know and value: Our diplomatic and consular officials overseas have a primordial responsibility to protect the rights and interests of our citizens traveling and working abroad...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).