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Diplomatic courage
Washington Monthly, Sept, 2003 by Charles Peters
When Brady Kiesling, a veteran foreign service officer, was planning to resign in protest over the war in Iraq, his friend, former ambassador Robert Keeled; told him it wouldn't do any good, people would forget what he had done.
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I happen to know Bob Keeley, and am sure that he hopes he was wrong. Brady Kiesling deserves to be remembered as a brave and thoughtful public servant, as do Ann Wright and John Brown, the other foreign service officers who joined him in resigning in protest. It isn't easy, to abandon a career. Asked to describe Brady, his sister Jennie said simply, "He's a diplomat," writes Bob Thompson of The Washington Post Magazine. A diplomat no longer, Kiesling is getting his Ph.D. and hopes to teach. We wish him well.
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