Reply #352: No, these students were not part of Noriega's inner circle [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

And it is still none of our business to decide which foreign leaders to depose. It is a very bad and long-standing habit.

As for Bush Sr's Gulf War, I was opposed to that. The U.S. ambassador (and Foreign Service Officers are required to give the official U.S. line on foreign policy at all times) told Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no objections to his preferred method of settling the dispute with Kuwait.

Then all of a sudden Saddam Hussein was evil (although he wasn't evil when he was taking on Iran).

The level of hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy is astounding, which is one reason why I ended up choosing not to accept a job offer from the Foreign Service, even though I passed both the written exam and the day-long interview process.