In February a well-respected U.S. foreign diplomat resigned after he disagreed with the direction of American foreign policy. Here are some interesting quotes from his resignation letter addressed to Sec of State Colin Powell.
"..our fervant pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon..."
"...we have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring us instability and danger, not security."
"... the sacrifice of global interests to domestic politics and to bureaucratic self-interest...and the largest systematic distortion of intelligence, and manipulation of American opinion we have seen since the war in Vietnam."
"...this administration has chosen to make terrorism a domestic political tool and arbitrarily linking the unrelated problems of terrorism and Iraq.."
"The result and motive is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military and to weaken the safeguards that protect American citizens from the heavy hand of the government"
"Why does the president condone the swaggering and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this Administration is fostering, including its most senior officials.
Has "Let them hate so long as they fear" become our motto"
"when our friends are afraid of us rather than for us, it is time to worry. And now they are afraid"
Get the entire letter from the Washington Post
"..our fervant pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon..."
"...we have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring us instability and danger, not security."
"... the sacrifice of global interests to domestic politics and to bureaucratic self-interest...and the largest systematic distortion of intelligence, and manipulation of American opinion we have seen since the war in Vietnam."
"...this administration has chosen to make terrorism a domestic political tool and arbitrarily linking the unrelated problems of terrorism and Iraq.."
"The result and motive is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military and to weaken the safeguards that protect American citizens from the heavy hand of the government"
"Why does the president condone the swaggering and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this Administration is fostering, including its most senior officials.
Has "Let them hate so long as they fear" become our motto"
"when our friends are afraid of us rather than for us, it is time to worry. And now they are afraid"
Get the entire letter from the Washington Post
