So good that the State Dept. will have to force diplomats to take a post there!
State Department enforces postings to Iraq
Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:01am EDT
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing staff shortages in Iraq, the U.S. State Department announced on Friday that diplomats would have no choice but to accept one-year postings in the hostile environment or face losing their jobs.
Thomas said the State Department had made "directed" assignments before, such as in 1969 when an entire junior foreign officer class was sent to Vietnam and again in the 1970s and 1980s for some difficult African postings.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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