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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney
And this surprises you? You are talking about the feckless DOS who thinks that everyone should speak English, understand our culture, and want to be just like us. Have you ever met many career diplomats that did not look down on the people in whose country he or she was stationed in a non-European country? Many of them never leave their compounds to do anything but look for bargins or go to and from the airport to pick up their commissary packages. In preparation for one of my "tours" I got to go thru one of their area study programs for Central Europe and take a little language refresher. The language refresher dealt not with in country situations or culture but with the higher level diplo-speak needed to deal with the host nations government. The area studies, while in depth, also dealt more with international interactions between the US and the target countries and not those pertinent facts and aspects of the country one would like to know to blend with the folks and the culture. So I am amazed that they even had this many and I bet 4 of them probably are in the military attache office.
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Sir,
By Euro would you mean NZ and AUS also? I never had any problems whatsoever with the diplomats but more so from the Kiwis who worked there.
Problem workers could find their cars registering hits on the ITMS and a through search
must be done.
