Letters, Letters and Letters
There have been almost a dozen (open) letters written to US officials this past week. The bulk of these letters are addressed to Ambassador Vicky Huddleston, the Charge d’Affaire at the US Embassy in Ethiopia.
“Ambassador Vicki Huddleston working with forgerers”
“Vicki: Ethiopia's Kingmaker? “
”Vicky and her clone”
“Vicky & TPLF assault on democracy “
“From Kinijit to Ambassador Vicky Huddleston”
“From Bertukan Mideksa to Ambassador Vicky Huddleston”
“Open Letter to the Carter Center “
The US State Department officials, specially the ones close to the ground, do not advance a personal agenda or foreign policy of their own, for there is no apparent personal benefit to any of them. Be it Ambassadors Huddleston, Yamamoto or Fraser, they all follow a US policy as scripted by the top level cabinet members of the Bush Administration.
Whether the acts of US officials deserve the crudity thrown at them, whether the angers and frustrations of the letter writers are valid or not, the question to ponder upon is what good does it do?
There are some things that do not compute quite well. On one hand some advocacy and support groups are spending over $700,000.00 for a Republican lobbyist. On another hand, they send slews of letters attacking State Department officials of a Republican administration. At the same time Republican congressman Chris Smith is considered a true friend of the opposition.
It does not take a rocket scientist to guess that the Republican congressman Chris Smith or the Republican lobbyists are not going to be amused by the barrage of verbal (written) abuse directed at fellow Republicans at the Executive Branch, whether they deserve it or not.
It may not be surprising if there is a change of heart on the part of Chris Smith with regard to HR4423. It won’t be surprising that the upcoming markup language of the bill to the full International committee, may be so watered down, that the proponents of the bill may end up drowning under it while the ruling party floats on all sorts of funding under the pretext of ‘building democratic institutions.’
“Ambassador Vicki Huddleston working with forgerers”
“Vicki: Ethiopia's Kingmaker? “
”Vicky and her clone”
“Vicky & TPLF assault on democracy “
“From Kinijit to Ambassador Vicky Huddleston”
“From Bertukan Mideksa to Ambassador Vicky Huddleston”
“Open Letter to the Carter Center “
The US State Department officials, specially the ones close to the ground, do not advance a personal agenda or foreign policy of their own, for there is no apparent personal benefit to any of them. Be it Ambassadors Huddleston, Yamamoto or Fraser, they all follow a US policy as scripted by the top level cabinet members of the Bush Administration.
Whether the acts of US officials deserve the crudity thrown at them, whether the angers and frustrations of the letter writers are valid or not, the question to ponder upon is what good does it do?
There are some things that do not compute quite well. On one hand some advocacy and support groups are spending over $700,000.00 for a Republican lobbyist. On another hand, they send slews of letters attacking State Department officials of a Republican administration. At the same time Republican congressman Chris Smith is considered a true friend of the opposition.
It does not take a rocket scientist to guess that the Republican congressman Chris Smith or the Republican lobbyists are not going to be amused by the barrage of verbal (written) abuse directed at fellow Republicans at the Executive Branch, whether they deserve it or not.
It may not be surprising if there is a change of heart on the part of Chris Smith with regard to HR4423. It won’t be surprising that the upcoming markup language of the bill to the full International committee, may be so watered down, that the proponents of the bill may end up drowning under it while the ruling party floats on all sorts of funding under the pretext of ‘building democratic institutions.’
posted by Mercato at
11:11 AM
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