Дипломаты косят от Ирака

[sergeika]

Only those with compelling reasons, such as a medical condition, will be excused from duty,

Да тут особо не покосишь. Конкурс получается 5-6 человек на место. Будут видимо лотерею разигрывать кто поедет.

Да нет, они просто учитывают, что у многих medical condition будут неправильные. Климат не подходит или взрыв IED под машиной плохо переносится. Утруска будет серьезная, поэтому забрасывают невод с запасом. Хотя прав Митяй, для карьеры место обалденное. Характерно, что, как и во Вьетнаме, нехватка дипломатов низшего звена, которым еще нечего терять. Карьерные дипломаты рангом постарше хорошо понимают, что такое корпоративная дисциплина.

[Sergunka]

Хотя прав Митяй, для карьеры место обалденное.

Из моих источников самые лучшие места для карьеры это Франция и Италия

Попробуйте догадаться с трех раз почему

[Митяй]

...

Русского языка знать есть сложно весьма отнюдь.

Собирает шеф 10 одуванчиков и говорит: "Добровольцы поковырять дурно пахнущий индусский код - шаг вперед!"
А в ответ тшина.
Это не значит, что одуванчики косят.

Тогда шеф говорит: "Назначаю добровольца - Мальчик-Одуванчик - ты доброволец - шаг вперед!"
А Мальчик-Одуванчик и говорит на это: "Да у меня чей-то голова болит и здесь колет, а здесь - томление... Не могу..."
В этом примере Мальчик-Одуванчик закосил от дурно пахнущего индусского кода.

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to cable all U.S. diplomats urging them to serve in Iraq, the State Department said on Thursday, a day after a furor erupted over plans to order some of them there.

At an emotional town hall meeting on Wednesday, U.S. diplomats bitterly complained about the State Department's decision to identify "prime candidates" who may have to accept compulsory one-year tours in Iraq or risk losing their jobs.

One said it was a "potential death sentence" to serve in Baghdad, where mortar rounds land in the heavily fortified "Green Zone" where the U.S. embassy is located.

В общем, мальчиков уже собрали , и объявили число требуемых "добровольцев", в ответ на что "добровольцы" начали громко вонять.

[DP]

вот и CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/02/ ... index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- State Department officials should serve where they are needed -- even in war-torn Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.

Rice was responding to foreign service officers' objections to the possibility of "directed assignments" in Iraq. The issue has caused an uproar in the State Department, resulting in a contentious town hall-style meeting Wednesday.

The new directives would be needed if enough qualified foreign service officers don't step forward to fill open positions at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

If the State Department enforces directed assignments, it will be the first time since the Vietnam War era.

One official called the order to serve in Iraq "a potential death sentence" during the town meeting.

The State Department already has begun notifying about 200 people considered prime candidates. Those chosen will be given 10 days to respond, according to last week's announcement. Unless they have a valid medical reason to refuse, those who decline could face dismissal, it said.

Wednesday's heated meeting was replayed on an internal State Department television channel in Washington several times and talked about widely.

Some at the hourlong meeting questioned why they were not told of the policy change directly, learning about it instead from news organizations last week.

"I just have no respect for the whole process because you've demonstrated a lack of respect for your own colleagues," said foreign service officer Jack Croddy.

"Thank you for that comment. It's full of inaccuracies, but that's OK," Harry Thomas Jr., director general of the foreign service, shot back.

Others pointed out the risks of such assignments, considering the dangers of a war zone, lack of security and regular rocket attacks on U.S. personnel.

Rice, who did not attend the meeting, tried to calm things down Friday by underscoring the State Department's attempts to do "everything that we can to try and protect our diplomats."

However, she said, "This is one of the highest priority tasks of the United States, and we're going to meet our obligations."

Speaking to reporters en route to Turkey and the Mideast, she said, "I don't know if we will have direct assignments or not, but we are one foreign service, and people need to serve where they are needed."

The secretary sent out a cable to State Department employees worldwide encouraging them to serve in Iraq.

"This year [U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker] has identified the need for additional positions to more effectively accomplish our mission in Iraq," Rice said in the cable.

Rice said she has decided to go forward with the identification of officers to serve, "should it prove necessary to direct assignments."

"Should others step forward, as some already have, we will fill these new jobs as we have before -- with volunteers. However, regardless of how the jobs may be filled, they must be filled," she said.

Rice earlier said reports that the State Department was finding it hard to coax foreign service employees into Iraq "couldn't be further from the truth."

The assignments are new positions. Fifteen people have stepped forward to volunteer for Iraq service since the new policy was announced October 26, department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

McCormack rejected comments by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, that State Department employees are "nervous Nellies" and that wounded U.S. military veterans should be asked to fill the Iraq vacancies.

McCormack said until now the State Department has been successful in filling jobs in Iraq with volunteers. Since 2003, more than 1,500 personnel have volunteered to go to Iraq, he said. But with the expansion of the staff in Iraq this year, 58 spots were left open.

"They are serving in dangerous and challenging places," he said. "We have a lot of brave people who are stepping up to the plate in Anbar and Basra and Baghdad and Kabul and a lot of other places that are not necessarily in the headlines."

State Department employees have been killed in Iraq, but McCormack could not say how many.

[vlad74]

Хотя прав Митяй, для карьеры место обалденное.

Из моих источников самые лучшие места для карьеры это Франция и Италия

Попробуйте догадаться с трех раз почему

Не гадаю. Просто соглашаюсь. И добавлю, что не только для карьеры, а и для жизни вообще