Forty years ago presidents and prime ministers might have attended one international meeting each year; today they are on a summit treadmill. They phone one another and cultivate personal relationships. Diplomats are often sidelined and left to churn out reports that circulate in a bureaucratic vortex.
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Why Diplomats Are Agog at Trump’s Ambassador to Israel
Posted December 20th, 2016 at 1:44 pm (UTC-4)
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When Diplomats Get Punished for Doing Their Jobs
Posted May 18th, 2016 at 10:24 am (UTC-4)
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The threat that government surveillance and national-security investigations pose for private citizens has been hotly debated for the past decade. Less understood is the damage done to government officials themselves when they fall into the dragnet.
Trump’s Choice for Israeli Ambassador Is a Danger to American Lives
Friedman not only supports additional settlements and seems opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank, but also wants to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv, where it has been for decades, to Jerusalem….[which] the Arab world would take it as a slap in the face.