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Professor Richard Feinberg's Op-Ed on U.S. "Fortress Embassies" in the Washington Post

Get Out Of Our Garrisons: Fortress Embassies Damage Diplomacy

05/24/2007
Richard Feinberg,

With threats to American power growing stronger and American prestige slipping around the world, our professional Foreign Service officers are more crucial than ever. Unfortunately, our approach to their security is making it almost impossible for many of them to do their jobs. Marooned in fortress-like embassies, cut off from the societies where they should be gathering intelligence and spreading American values, too many of them might as well be surveying the landscape from offices in Washington. More...


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